Tag: time
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The Dollars and Sense of Writing
Why should I read this book? This is the question every reader holds when cracking open the pages of any novel, or work of fiction and deciding whether to invest money and time into purchasing and reading it.
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So You Want to Write a Story: Where the Action Is
Once you have established the general place and time of a novel there remains the specifics of where the majority of action takes place. Eager to supply a healthy amount of action and avoid writing a stagnant and boring read, young writers often craft a story that holds a infinitesimal number of places where the…
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So You Want to Write a Story: How=Story
A story can be seen as answering six essential questions: Who, What, Where, When Why, and How? Who concerns the characters. What defines the current situation, problem or dilemma. Where describes the setting. When is the second part of the setting, time and period in history, either current, or some time in the past, or…
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So You Want to Write a Story: Time, and the Time Period of Your Story?
The setting of a novel includes not simply where the story takes place, location, but also the time and the time period wherein the change of events occurs. Time and time period, like setting are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters.
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Meaning and the Artist’s Time
Creators have trouble maintaining meaning. … A creative person is vulnerable to meaning crises, and hence depression, by virtue of our relationship to meaning. Eric Maisel, PhD, in the introduction of his book, the VAN GOGH BLUES, The Creative Person’s Path Through Depression
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The Roots of My Writing Life
My fourth grader has a science project due May 4th and a Mission Project due May 18th. My high school sophomore’s paper on comparing and contrasting the Holocaust to The Rwandan genocide is due after Easter Break. And then my college senior is graduating May 22 ,2009. The Baccalaureate service takes place the night before,…
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Tax Time | Adding Up the Numbers: Taking Account
Today I was adding up the numbers for my tax accountant–you know those numbers that show how much money you’ve earned–hopefully doing what you love–and then the amount you spent–those deductions–the cost of doing what you love.