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Dialogue: composing the music of speech
Art of Writing Comments Apr 19, 2013 10:15amI like to imagine dialogue between characters in stories analogous to composing music. If you listen to actual people dialogue with each other you can usually tell just how well...
What motivates your characters?
Art of Writing Comments Apr 12, 2013 9:27amMotivation or motives are related to fictional characters in the reading public’s mind closely to crime stories.
The main protagonist, usually detectives...
Creating characters
Art of Writing Comments Apr 08, 2013 9:10amSo what is it about characters who are found in a story that gets you interested in them? You might say that depends on the reader. That may be so, but as a writer you must know...
On life support: public libraries
Art of Writing Comments Updated: Apr 02, 2013 8:02amPublic Libraries in general are on life support, their attendance and use have dropped. The reason is computers and on-line availability of information. This is only one aspect...
The Story Concept: Book to Movie
Art of Writing Comments Mar 22, 2013 9:09amConcepts: Now just what are they?
Ideas, notions and impressions; and where do these ideas, notions and impressions come from? They come from within,...
Laying out the plot
Art of Writing Comments Updated: Mar 14, 2013 9:09amLaying out a plot for a story to a novice writer might seem to be a simple thing to do, however you must consider the reader and the readability of your story. The reader must...
Chasing the genre dragon
Art of Writing Comments Updated: Mar 14, 2013 9:27amChasing the dragon was a popular 19th century term for the smoking of opium, and was used by people, mostly white Europeans who frequented opium parlors. The term is a pejorative phrase...
Fill your house with imagination
Art of Writing Comments Feb 22, 2013 10:35amYou can think of your imagination as an imaginary house with many different rooms, each room being a world unto its self. Psychologists might consider this compartmentalizing...
Finding the right words
Art of Writing Comments Feb 15, 2013 9:35amFinding that right word is a real show-stopper for some would-be writers, and I have been asked where or what would be a good resource to find that perfect word. First I ask “...
Motivation into word-craft
Art of Writing Comments Feb 08, 2013 11:24amAs children we all pretended to be anything from cowboys to princesses, witches, or wizards, super-heroes and so on. But as children do, we made the rules as we went along. At the time it did...