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Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newer posts →. Review: In the Dark by Deborah Moggach. December 5, 2015. In the Dark,. Masterfully recreates London during the Great War, focusing not on the trenches but on the inhabitants of a shabby Southwark boarding house. Moggach deftly paints the deprivation of wartime. Families survive on cabbage leaves picked up from the gutter and thrice-boiled tea. Still, the lodgers gather pleasure where they can: the blind veteran cherishes his gram...Histo...
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Writer Girl: The Teachers on My Bookshelf
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. The Teachers on My Bookshelf. This list is a an index of links to posts in which I study writing craft in my favorite books. Anderson, Laurie Halse. Chapters Move Characters Forward. Chapter and Going Far Enough. Chapters: Arcs and Complications. Chapters: Arcs Clumping Together. Tension after the Climax. What Makes YA YA? Being in the Now. Suspense and Small Potatoes. What Makes YA YA? Reading to Know You're Not Alone. What Makes YA YA? Characters that Stay with You. Instit...
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Writer Girl: Variation
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. So a long time ago when I first started writing seriously I was in grad school at NYU, and I wrote a play based on a poem by Mel Glenn in Class Dismissed. In the poem a struggling girl goes to her parents, who send her to her teachers, who send her to her counselor, who sends her to the assistant principal, who sends her to the principal, and so on until she loops right back to her parents. I think I just figured something out. When I structure a s...
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Writer Girl: Books on Writing
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. Bernays and Painter - What If? Bettelheim, Bruno - The Uses of Enchantment. Bradbury, Ray - Zen in the Art of Writing. Dillard, Annie - The Writing Life. Goldberg, Natalie - Thunder and Lightning. Goldberg, Natalie - Wild Mind. Goldberg, Natalie Writing Down the Bones. Henderson, Kathy - Market Guide for Young Writers. King, Stephen - On Writing. Lamott, Anne - Bird by Bird. Lukeman, Noah - The First Five Pages. Maass, Donald - The Fire in Fiction. McKee, Robert - Story.
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Writer Girl: November 2014
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. Saturday, November 15, 2014. The Problem with Talking It Out. Okay, Joss Whedon is my hero. I’ve been r-watching Buffy. From the beginning while I’m on the treadmill, and it’s a daily writing lesson on top of a workout. Today Joss Whedon answered my prayers. You know how sometimes there is something nagging you about a manuscript, you know what it is, but you quietly hope it will go away? Well, this isn’t that. This is more insidious. Here’s what is. Meanwhile, Mrs. Post...
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Writer Girl: January 2014
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. Thursday, January 9, 2014. Tension after the Climax or The Denouement: What I Learned. The denouement is widely known as the falling action between the story’s climax and ending. You want your denouement to be more than falling water, gravity inevitable, simply tying up loose ends. You want tension. You want it to read like the final pages of Eleanor and Park. Oh, that’s how that works! Thank you Rainbow, Andrew, Rachel, Laurie, and Sara. 8226; In the protagonist’s cli...
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Laura Rock: July 2014
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Laura's Own Unprocessed Project. Writing, of course. Thursday, 24 July 2014. The Half-life of Stories. In 2006 I bought a copy of Best American Short Stories. And read the whole thing, marveling at the range of voices showcased in the anthology, the writers’ skillful execution of narrative. Until then I had not been a regular consumer of the BASS series, but Ann Patchett. Was the editor that year. I loved her novel Bel Canto. 8217;s disproportionate representation in the pages of BASS. To pay attention t...
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Writer Girl: The Problem with Talking It Out
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The Teachers on My Bookshelf. Saturday, November 15, 2014. The Problem with Talking It Out. Okay, Joss Whedon is my hero. I’ve been r-watching Buffy. From the beginning while I’m on the treadmill, and it’s a daily writing lesson on top of a workout. Today Joss Whedon answered my prayers. You know how sometimes there is something nagging you about a manuscript, you know what it is, but you quietly hope it will go away? Well, this isn’t that. This is more insidious. Here’s what is. Meanwhile, Mrs. Post...
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Linked Short Story Collections | Jo Haraf
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Skip to primary content. Linked Short Story Collections. July 24, 2015. Linked story collections combine the best of the short story (quick read, compressed action) with the long arc and multiple characters of a well-crafted novel. Individual stories are unique, like a single stem in an English Garden, but when combined with flowers unlike themselves, their power to amaze increases. Please add a comment about your favorite linked story collections and check back for new titles. The New York Times. Winner...
