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Work In Progress: Thursday's Children - Ikebana
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Thursday, May 16, 2013. Thursday's Children - Ikebana. Thursday's Children - Ikebana. Or: Things Left Unsaid. A weekly blog hob where. Writers share their Inspirations. Much of the beauty of an Ikebana arrangement comes from the space between the branches. The space in between feels like silence. But real life doesn't work that way. Unless we're with someone 24/7 from the moment of their birth, we can never fully know everything that happened to them, nor everything they think or feel. Do your characters...
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Work In Progress: April 2013
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Monday, April 29, 2013. Or: "Who said whatnow? Your characters all sound generic/the same." Or "I can't tell people apart when they're talking." Or "Your dialogue scenes are eye-gougingly boring.". What they might mean:. Some, if not all, of your characters talk with a similar vocabulary and sentence structure. Some, if not all, of your dialogue scenes lack tension. Let's pull on our serious pants. To address Point 1. Answer these questions: Do you have more than one character in your story? Is to take a...
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Work In Progress: FILTERING
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Monday, December 3, 2012. Or: He felt the knife slide across his throat. Your characters are boring." Or "This feels very distant." Or "I couldn't get into it." Or "You're filtering.". Since many people have just finished Nanowrimo. S month of intensive writing, let's focus on an easy blunder to spot and eliminate. Sensory filtering. The simplest way to describe it is you're using sensual verbs. No, not smexy verbs, verbs that describe the act. A filtering verb does the same thing. Example: A limited 3.
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Work In Progress: November 2012
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Monday, November 26, 2012. Or: The Pitfalls of Pleasing Yourself. This is where I stopped reading because it's confusing/slow/flowery/overwritten/clichéd." Or "You have a lot of purple patches. Your choice (and maybe amount) of adjectives does the opposite of what you intended. Rather than create a vivid, immersive scene, your description stops the story's momentum. Think of it this way:. Here's how to recognize Purple Prose:. Description of new characters (especially Love Interests) compare their attrib...
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Work In Progress: PACING
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Monday, December 17, 2012. This post contains a scene which may be unsuitable for some readers. Skip Blue. Get on with it already! Or "I totes skipped chapters 3, 5, 8, and 10." Or "This is eye-gougingly boring.". Your pacing could use a little work. At its simplest, pacing is the rate of activity or movement in a specified time. In other words, how much happened in one scene. Recall my post on Details. Think of it this way. First, let's get on the same page about pendulums (as J understands them). T...
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Work In Progress: January 2013
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Monday, January 21, 2013. Show Versus Tell Part 3. Part 3: Frankensteining It. This post contains questionably explicit quoted material that may not be suitable for everyone. We've gone over how to turn Tell into Show. And the importance of Telling. Now let's look at how authors stitch them together in some contemporary New York Times. Notable Books and Bestsellers. My suffering left me sad and gloomy. Academic study and the steady, mindful practice of religion slowly brought me back to life.'. And Tensi...
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Work In Progress: BETAS
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Monday, December 31, 2012. Or: League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk. Let's end the year with a bang. And make plans for The Writing Career in 2013. If you're prone to procrastination or writer's block, I highly encourage you to get your ass in a chair and hammer out a writing plan for 2013 in the form of New Year's Resolutions. It's going to be an action plan of ten things. An action plan that will benefit you, and get you moving at a solid pace, will have realistic. Let's get on the same page. Why Adam ra...
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Work In Progress: December 2012
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Monday, December 31, 2012. Or: League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk. Let's end the year with a bang. And make plans for The Writing Career in 2013. If you're prone to procrastination or writer's block, I highly encourage you to get your ass in a chair and hammer out a writing plan for 2013 in the form of New Year's Resolutions. It's going to be an action plan of ten things. An action plan that will benefit you, and get you moving at a solid pace, will have realistic. Let's get on the same page. Why Adam ra...
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Work In Progress: March 2013
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Thursday, March 28, 2013. Thursday's Children: The Unwritten Journal. Inspired by the Unwritten Journal. A weekly blog hop where. Writers share their inspirations. I keep journals. Most of them are written. One is not. The Unwritten Journal. Stay still, don't breathe. Let it infuse you, possess you, compel you to scrape off your scars, gouge out your mouth, score your heart until you spew forth a million molecules of vitriol. This inspiration, found within your secret regrets, powerlessness, horror, lust...
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