Tag: transcendence
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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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The Courage to Dance and Write
Writers dance with our characters. The words we write are the music delivering rhythm by which our feet move. The sentences and paragraphs that follow spin a melody, the context and situation wherein we in crafting our stories offer not only a depiction of transformation and change, but also the epiphany and transcendence of our…
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“The Dance,” Courage and Writing
A friend who is also a dancer sent me this video, The Dance. After Tweeting it, I now have to say that the story told in the video is so much like writing. What you see is a woman in her 30’s performing a modern dance routine with a man who has one leg. Surprisingly…