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The Clash of Wants
I’m probably going to be talking a lot about Sol Stein in the next few weeks. Sorry, I’ve been reading him to buff up on my editing skillzzzzz, so please bear with me. Sol Stein is a self-celebrated writer and editor, and I don’t think that his own hype is unwarranted. He’s got some great […]
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Tagged as: Bracken, how to write, Rahab, Stein, writing
Tension in Writing
Sol Stein writes this is in his chapter on tension: “Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tenion. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediatly….A common fault I’ve observed is that the writer creates a pressing problem for a character and then immediatly […]
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Tagged as: how to write, Stein, writing
>Janus at the door: looking behind and ahead
>I thought now would be a good time to look back at where I was a year ago in my life. Well, weather-wise, we have seen some definite changes. There was no blizzard on Christmas, and it has hardly gotten below freezing this winter. Global Warming must be true! In more good news, my house […]
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>Post NaNoWriMo Plans
>Now that the frenzy of NaNoWriMo is over, most people like to breathe, take a step back, and then delve into revision everything that they’ve just spewed out over the course of November. For me, while Bracken may one day become his own novel, nanowrimo was more the process of understand Bracken’s backstory so that […]
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>Book update for July
>Just finished Wuthering Heights last night. Now my currently reading list consists of:Les MiserablesJane EyreThe 10 PM QuestionThe Secret Life of Words: How English Became English also, I’m almost done with my first draft of Into the Flames. Just about two thousand words to go, really, if I end it where I think I’m going […]
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>Sol Stein, who’s he?
>The essence of dramatic conflict lies in the clash of wants. (Sol Stein) There’s so much that I could write about today. The above quote is from “Stein on Writing,” a book I picked up during lunch today at Tate. Nothing that he said seemed very revolutionary, and really nothing that I read was any […]
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>Getting the creative juices flowing
>So here’s where I stand on Into the Flames, the novel I WILL settle down and finish this year. Word Count: 18,526 I think I’m about half way through the plot right now, maybe two thirds, but I’m pretty sure I can add some scenes and embellish throughout to make it a “real” novel length.I […]
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>come to the poll!
>I think one of my originals purposes in this blog was to do post bits of my stories on here, like I used to do on myspace. But I keep putting it off becuase I know that I can post a lot more story than I can write, and I don’t want to get to […]
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>Writing update
>Yesterday I read through my whole “Into the Flames” manuscript and made notes about what I want to add. I did not, however, get a breakthrough on the whole “major conflict” issue. I ultimately decided to reject the “Bracken’s sister in trouble” route because that would focus to much on him and his inner struggles. […]
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>Question of the Day:What is it like to feel the need to save the world but to know that nobody wants your help? How hard is it to have to break down and ask somebody else for help when you feel like you have more power than anybody else? Idea that needs response:I was going […]
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