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Book Review #3: The Massey Murder | This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History. Unsolicited blasts from the past. Book Review #3: The Massey Murder. The Massey Murder: A Maid, Her Master, and the Trial That Shocked a Country. HarperCollins, 2013: Toronto. On February 8, 1915, Charles Bert Massey was shot outside his home on Walmer Road. This murder and subsequent trial of his servant, Carrie Davies, form the backdrop of Charlotte Gray. Which explores several interconnected aspects of Toronto life in the 1910s. And several of the key legal figures, but ...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Notes from "Step Over To The Dark Side: The Basics of Mystery Fiction"
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Friday, September 26, 2008. Notes from "Step Over To The Dark Side: The Basics of Mystery Fiction". Compiled by Mary Jane Maffini and Barbara Fradkin with a little help from their friends. A Writer’s Time. Norton, rev. ed. 1995). Thought-provoking and demanding but well worth the read if you are serious about managing yourself and the writing process. How to Write a Mystery. Readable and practical by the author of Wag the Dog. Writing the Novel From Plot to Print. Writer’s Digest, 1979). Lovely. Like...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Notes from "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" with Paulette Bourgeois
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008. Notes from "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" with Paulette Bourgeois. Using screenwriting techniques to create children’s books. 8220;But suppose, asks the student of the teacher, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that “something else” that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.” - Fannie Hurst. Tell the story in one line. Author Blake Snyder writes that Titanic is not a story about a...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Notes from "When Memoir Inspires Fiction" Part 3
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Thursday, December 11, 2008. Notes from "When Memoir Inspires Fiction" Part 3. Promoting a book of memoir-based fiction:. 1 If your book is historical, a good idea is to tie promotion in with big events, like the anniversary of Vimy Ridge, for example. You’ll have to work with your publisher on that, but it could help get you more media coverage outside of the Books section. The Writers' Trust of Canada. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8220;In the Beginning: Popping the Story,. Cape Breton, NS. Toron...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Notes from "Cutting, Tweaking & Rehearsing" with Guillermo Verdecchia
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Saturday, April 12, 2008. Notes from "Cutting, Tweaking and Rehearsing" with Guillermo Verdecchia. QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER WHEN RE-WRITING YOUR PLAY. Does every line do some work for you? Can it do more work? Does every line move forward? Are you telling too much? Are you telling us enough? Does the character need to say this or does your audience need to know it? Are you walking us through the thoughts or allowing us to join the dots, make leaps of intellection? Are you showing SIGNIFICANT ACTION? Toronto...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Commentary from Ken McGoogan
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Monday, April 20, 2009. Commentary from Ken McGoogan. In praise of literary nonfiction. Published in Globe and Mail, Nov. 10, 2008). Who knew that Edmonton would become a North Star? Am I the only one grown tired of listening to fictioneers read to me from books I can read myself? A cabaret of six-minute readings can entertain if the drinks are flowing. But to the conventional, twenty-minute fiction writer's drone, I vastly prefer an on-stage conversation or interview, or better still a no-holds-barr...
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The Writers' Trust Workshop Blog: Notes from "The Art and Craft of Historical Fiction" with Fred Stenson
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Thursday, April 09, 2009. Notes from "The Art and Craft of Historical Fiction" with Fred Stenson. ACCURACY, AUTHENTICITY, AND USING REAL PEOPLE IN FICTION. Is it necessary to be authentic? Two good things to remember about historical fiction are that:. 1 Historical fiction can only be written by people who weren’t there. 2 Historical fiction can only be read by people who weren’t there either. The reason that I like to stick with the facts, to the extent that they are known and I believe them, is again n...
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Featured Speakers – DISCOURSE & DYNAMICS
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David Wencer | This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History. Unsolicited blasts from the past. Author Archives: David Wencer. The Toronto World, May 23, 1912. I tumbled onto this gem of an article a few months back while hunting around in old issues of the. Taken from the May 23, 1912 issue of the. From this brief source it is difficult to know what is really going on here. One’s instinct is to chastise the fun-hating folks of the Toronto-the-Good era, but without more detail this seems unfair. Continue reading →. On February 8, 1915...