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A Writer's Guide to Active Setting by Mary Buckham
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 )
The Lie That Tells a Truth by John Dufresne
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 )
Writing Plots With Drama, Depth and Heart: Nail Your Novel by Roz Morris
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 )
How To Fix Your Novel by Steve Alcorn
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 )
The Writer's Compass: From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages by Nancy Ellen Dodd
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 )
Creating Character: Bringing Your Story to Life (Red Sneaker Writers Book Series) by William Bernhardt
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 )
Storyworld First: Creating a Unique Fantasy World for Your Novel by Jill Williamson
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 )
Writing Fiction for Dummies by Peter Economy & Randy Ingermanson
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 )
How to Write Descriptions of Hair and Skin by Val Kovalin
epub |eng | 2011-06-25 | Author:Val Kovalin [Kovalin, Val]

2.6 White Hair Typically, when blonds and redheads age into white hair, it will have a warm yellowish undertone. Brunets tend to age into white hair with a cool silvery ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 16,2016 )
The Great Spring by Natalie Goldberg
epub |eng | | Author:Natalie Goldberg

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: Authorship February 15,2016 )
Booklife by Jeff VanderMeer
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Jeff VanderMeer [Vandermeer, Jeff]

• CURIOSITY. Nothing is more essential to a writer than an inquisitive nature — being curious about the world and the people in it. Curiosity reflects a willingness to be ...
( Category: Authorship February 10,2016 )
The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo
epub |eng | | Author:Louise DeSalvo

29. Hailstorms A few years ago, my husband and I were staying at a castle in Tuscany. This was a rustic place with few creature comforts—no heat, no air-conditioning, uneven ...
( Category: Writing Skills February 7,2016 )
To the Letter by Simon Garfield
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-13 | Author:Simon Garfield

For all her preoccupation with longing and loss, the loss of Emily Dickinson’s own letters didn’t concern her unduly; the fact that a small percentage of mail wouldn’t make it ...
( Category: Fiction February 2,2016 )
You Can't Make This Stuff Up by Lee Gutkind
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-10 | Author:Lee Gutkind [Lee Gutkind]

Here we see the world through the eyes of Dick and Perry and even, for a brief moment, through the eyes of the driver, the “lucky bastard.” Capote wasn’t there—he ...
( Category: Authorship January 12,2016 )
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives by Egri Lajos
azw3, epub |eng | 1899-12-31 | Author:Egri, Lajos [Egri, Lajos]

4 JUMPING One of the chief dangers in any jumping conflict is that the author believes the conflict is rising smoothly. He resents any critic who insists that the conflict ...
( Category: Writing Skills January 10,2016 )

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