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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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Event Details | Alison Neuman
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Searching for Normal: A Memoir. Don’t EAT Family / On Ne Manage Pas La Famille. Camp Mission Access Registration. Authors for Altruism 2016. Meet and mingle with local authors, support 630 CHED Santas Anonymous and get a head start on your Christmas shopping! Annual Authors for Altruism Charity Book Sale! A percentage of book sales and choir request, along with. Book and toy donations, will be donated directly to 630 CHED Santas Anonymous. Enter to win a $75 Gift Card from Normand’s Bistro. Authors for A...
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The Walrus Books Blog. Newer posts →. April 3, 2009 · 3:53 pm. In which Walrus Books wonders why there isn’t a sign of the zodiac that is a walrus and proposes a daring solution. Also, Joan Marie Galat’s Stories of the Zodiac is nominated for a Hackmatack Award. Here at Walrus Books we’re pretty into horoscopes. We’re also pretty into. Stories of the Zodiac. The latest in the. Dot-to-Dot in the Sky. Then we learned that. Stories of the Zodiac. Has been nominated for the Hackmatack Award. So, according to.
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In which we (finally!) finish Horse Mad Heroes and compare it to a great work in the history of horse books | The Walrus Books Blog
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The Walrus Books Blog. In which we get around a questionable metaphor with some evasive maneuvers. July 14, 2009 · 10:47 pm. In which we (finally! Finish Horse Mad Heroes and compare it to a great work in the history of horse books. In today’s seminar. We spent most of our university career in pajamas. They were so comfortable we even wore them out dancing once. We often danced alone in those years. By Xenophon, published in 350 B.C. How could we not be curious? The horse’s groom should be well-tra...
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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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In which we get around a questionable metaphor with some evasive maneuvers | The Walrus Books Blog
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The Walrus Books Blog. In which we post the Walrus Books Not Broccoli Summer Reading List. In which we (finally! Finish Horse Mad Heroes and compare it to a great work in the history of horse books →. July 2, 2009 · 10:51 pm. In which we get around a questionable metaphor with some evasive maneuvers. We were going to use this post to remind you that we’ve been reading Horse Mad Heroes. As part of the Not Broccoli Summer Reading List. In which we post the Walrus Books Not Broccoli Summer Reading List.
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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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