Fiction
epub |eng | 2010-06-05 | Author:Olmstead Robert

Here's the thing about Diana the Huntress: misunderstand her and bad things can happen swiftly. Take Actaeon, for instance. Just one peep at Di's high-energy water aerobics, and before he ...
( Category: Authorship November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-13 | Author:Stuart Horwitz [Horwitz, Stuart]

I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that kind of linear list very inspiring. I would rather see everything that I am dealing with spread out in front ...
( Category: Fiction September 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Dinty W. Moore [Moore, Dinty W.]

WRITING THE SPIRITUAL ESSAY “I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?” ...
( Category: Fiction June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Cat Rambo [Rambo, Cat]

Filling out your profile, including organizations you're affiliated with through employment or education. Include links to your work. Including a good, recognizable head shot. Joining groups. There are plenty of ...
( Category: Fiction May 26,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-17 | Author:R. Andrew Wilson [Wilson, R. Andrew]

Taking the time given him from a canceled bullfight, Hemingway wrote “The Killers” in one Madrid afternoon. And as Papa himself told George Plimpton, he completed two other stories that ...
( Category: Writing Skills May 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Natalie Goldberg [Goldberg, Natalie]

11 Iowa The plane drops down into Cedar Rapids and the snow is falling thick and at an angle. The flight attendant announces it is eighteen degrees. Monday, February 11. ...
( Category: Philosophy May 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-27 | Author:Sykes, Chris [Sykes, Chris]

Key idea All plots need someone or something to drive them. The ‘gold’ or ‘the MacGuffin’ the characters seek is the plot-driver; it drives the characters, it drives the story. ...
( Category: Fiction May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-02 | Author:Mary Buckham

Let’s pull these two examples apart to see how Cotterill ratchets up conflict not only by using Setting, but by using contrasting POVs to show Setting. He lay wide awake ...
( Category: Writing Skills April 30,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:John Dufresne

Plottery Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some. —Jean Anouilh An idea is not a story. A first draft is ...
( Category: Writing Skills April 29,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-05 | Author:Roz Morris [Morris, Roz]

10 PACE – THE STORYTELLER’S SPELL A well-paced story is like an act of hypnosis. It has a travelling beat that takes charge of the reader’s attention. It proceeds at ...
( Category: Fiction April 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-03 | Author:Steve Alcorn [Alcorn, Steve]

Suspense 123 Chapter 14 Suspense When conflict creates not action, but the possibility of action, that’s suspense. Here’s an example: When Mark told her he was leaving her, Valerie was ...
( Category: Fiction April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Nancy Ellen Dodd [Dodd, Nancy Ellen]

Exploring Ideas: Think of conceits in terms of an over arching metaphor. What metaphor could you use to tell your story? What might the conceit for this story look like ...
( Category: Writing Skills April 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:William Bernhardt [Bernhardt, William]

Highlights 1) Contradiction, internal or external, makes characters more interesting. This is the fundamental quality found in three-dimensional characters. 2) Not all characters need to be three-dimensional. Red Sneaker Exercises ...
( Category: Fiction April 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Jill Williamson [Williamson, Jill]

MEDICINE Primitive peoples understood enough about healing to bandage wounds with bark or animal skins or pack them in mud to stop the bleeding. But they had little understanding of ...
( Category: Fiction March 18,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Peter Economy & Randy Ingermanson [Economy, Peter & Ingermanson, Randy]

Objective: Your reader needs to be able to visualize exactly what your character wants next. Worthwhile: Your reader must believe the character would actually make this decision, based on her ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics February 28,2016 )