Tag: writing discussion
member name: Pat Bertram
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June 18, 2008 11:47 AM EDT --
Characters interact with the setting as much as they do with the plot and other characters. In fact, setting can be used as another character, one that is implacable and without reason. Like . . .
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April 30, 2009 12:05 PM EDT --
If I can think of a good topic, I will post it. Otherwise let's just talk about how we got into writing, what keeps us going when it gets difficult, how we deal with other's expectation of us . . .
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October 23, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
In all the books on writing I've read, they talk about developing a syle, but then recently I came across the remark that "Style Happens." If style is simply the way you write, but . . .
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March 11, 2009 10:51 PM EDT --
I've spent the past ten days de-was-ing my third manuscript. It's quite humbling. I think I'm finally getting the hang of writing, then I take on an editing chore like that and discover I . . .
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May 14, 2009 01:47 AM EDT --
One of the best books about writing I ever read was David Gerrold's Worlds of Wonder. It's a how-to for writing science fiction and fantasy, but it's applicable to all writers since, in . . .
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May 21, 2009 01:53 AM EDT --
I never understood why so many writers hate to be asked where they get their ideas. I always thought it was a perfectly sensible question, and now that I am a writer, I know that it's a perfectly . . .
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May 27, 2009 02:29 PM EDT --
On Thursday, April 9th, Lazarus Barnhill, author of Lacey Took a Holiday and The Medicine People hosted a live chat about writing and destiny for my No Whine, Just Champagne group . . .
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October 29, 2008 03:27 PM EDT --
I recently came across Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction and thought they were worth discussing. His advice
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the . . .
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January 07, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
Some of you might have seen this article when I posted it on my blog, but that is no excuse for not joining in the discussion -- we want to hear what you have to say about your own style, how you create the . . .
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January 14, 2009 02:42 PM EST --
Writers generally use the word hero to mean main character , though often that main character is not particularly heroic. So what makes a hero heroic?
Note: For the purpose of this discussion, hero . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
After seeing my article, " A Book Reviewer's Lexicon ," where I mentioned that I'd read 20,000 books, Ken Coffman asked what books stuck out in my mind as premier ones, what authors . . .
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April 22, 2009 09:42 PM EDT --
In The Career Novelist , agent Donald Maass wrote: "To the extent that fiction validates our cherished ideals, it will sell. To the extent that it condemns us as a people, holding up the ugly mirror . . .
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June 11, 2009 12:09 AM EDT --
I'm sure it won't come as any surprise to those of you who follow my blog and my comments, but I am at a crossroads in my life. I've spent most of the past eight years learning to write, writing my four . . .
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December 09, 2008 01:02 PM EST --
Elmore Leonard is hosting our discussion. He doesn't know it, of course, but we had so much fun with Kurt Vonnegut's Eight Rules, I thought we'd use Leonard's rules this time and have . . .
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April 01, 2009 09:54 PM EDT --
The most compelling characters are those who want something desperately and who will do anything to get it, which is why Scarlett O'Hara is such a perennially popular character. Frankly, my dear, . . .
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August 27, 2008 06:58 PM EDT --
It is not necessarily true that a picture is worth a thousand words. It takes only a few words, if they are the right words, to create vivid portraits. The secret is to choose significant details . . .
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October 15, 2008 02:12 PM EDT --
"Exposition is a device for introducing characters, to provide setting, for creating tone, to explain ideas, to analyze background. Exposition should be immediately related to the event that causes . . .
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