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Zoe Whittall: New Book Club edition of Holding Still for as Long as Possible coming in April!
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Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler. The Globe and Mail. Wednesday, January 15, 2014. New Book Club edition of Holding Still for as Long as Possible coming in April! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Watch My Book Trailers! Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Globe and Mail Rave. Click to read bigger version. VIEW MY BOOK TRAILER.
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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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Zoe Whittall: Featured in Elle Magazine!
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Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler. The Globe and Mail. Tuesday, January 11, 2011. Featured in Elle Magazine! This is the issue here on the right, and Biggie Smalls is only pretending not to be interested. In other news, I'll be on CBC Radio's Day 6 show tomorrow with a silly rant I wrote about my anxiety around the boomers aging. View my complete profile. Buy m...
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Zoe Whittall: Bottle Rocket Hearts for Canada Reads
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Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler. The Globe and Mail. Tuesday, November 02, 2010. Bottle Rocket Hearts for Canada Reads. What do you think? I'm sorry I don't know how to make the screen fit - I'm not exactly a tech whiz.:). No New is Good News. We are also big fans of Dance Yourself to Death, as well as your work. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Awesome In...
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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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Zoe Whittall: mostly I've been swimming in lakes, but also...
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Zoe Whittall might just be the cockiest, brashest, funniest, toughest, most life-affirming, elegant, scruffy, no-holds-barred writer to emerge from Montreal since Mordecai Richler. The Globe and Mail. Saturday, July 23, 2011. Mostly I've been swimming in lakes, but also. I have a new short story called It's Just Not Working Out. In the lastest issue of THIS magazine. I'm reading on August 11 at Another Story Bookstore on Roncesvalles Ave in Toronto. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Globe and Mail Rave.
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