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Advice for Writers: What to do with particularly fine passages
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Monday, August 31, 2009. What to do with particularly fine passages. Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. A Book for Today: Samuel Johnson by Jeffrey Meyers. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What to do with particularly fine passages. A Book for Today. Grunt by Mary Roach * *. Short Story: Draft Notice (Adult theme and language). It's a Science Experiment.
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Advice for Writers: April 2009
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Friday, April 24, 2009. Not so long ago there was a scandal when a writer published an inspiring autobiography of their recovery from a life of poverty and drugs when the truth was revealed: the story was fiction. Some people were very upset and others merely confused. The author's defense was that it was a great story, why does it matter whether it was literally true or not? Certainly many novels start with the conceit of telling a true story.
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Advice for Writers: September 2008
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Saturday, September 27, 2008. Four Plot Types (from Orson Scott Card). There four types of stories or plots. This story is most concerned with places visited. The story begins when the trip begins and end when the traveler returns home. Think of The Odyssey. The story is about the Sirens and the Cyclops - strange inhabitants of strange places. A fifth plot structure used by beginning writers is the Meta Mystery/Puzzle Story. This story is most...
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Advice for Writers: July 2009
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Wednesday, July 29, 2009. How To Write in Active Voice. For new writers includes the admonition to: Use Active Voice. This advice basically calls for replacing He was happy with his present. With His present made him happy. However, much of this advice stops here without clear instructions showing what habits to develop to avoid passive voice. Sentence. Skilled writers naturally employ a variety of subjects. Became a leap, air and light. Is li...
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Advice for Writers: August 2008
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Friday, August 29, 2008. Writing: Show or Tell? Show, don't tell. This is the most common advice given to new writers. The is terrible advice. For example, two excellent thrillers I recently read. And The Secret Servant. Happily disregard this sage advice. The proper advice is Show or Tell. Here is an example from classic Elmer Gantry. A year he spent in Rudd Center, three years in Vulcan, and two years in Sparta. This is the power of telling!
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Advice for Writers: August 2009
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Monday, August 31, 2009. What to do with particularly fine passages. Read over your compositions, and where ever you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. A Book for Today: Samuel Johnson by Jeffrey Meyers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What to do with particularly fine passages. A Book for Today. Grunt by Mary Roach * *. Short Story: Draft Notice (Adult theme and language). It's a Science Experiment.
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Advice for Writers: March 2009
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These are my collected musings on the art of writing fiction. Sunday, March 29, 2009. What happens next vs What's happening. Every story teller starting before Homer found a way to sustain the reader's interest. The author might think of this as suspense ( Will Phileas Fogg get around the world in 80 days? Or mystery (Who dunit? Or story arc ( What will happen to Tom Sawyer after he paints the fence? The driving force might characters ( Jane Austen. Or the plot ( Jules Verne. Except one: What's happening?