Fiction
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Reading & Phonics
February 28,2016 )
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 ...
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Writing Skills
February 16,2016 )
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. ...
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Authorship
February 15,2016 )
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 ...
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Authorship
February 10,2016 )
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 ...
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Writing Skills
February 7,2016 )
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 ...
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Fiction
February 2,2016 )
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 ...
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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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