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Joyce Carol Oates Prize longlist
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Alexandra Sokoloff's blog
Nanowrimo prep: What Makes A Great Climax?
(Come on, admit it, one of the great things about being writers is that we get paid for them.)
(Come on, admit it, one of the great things about being writers is that we get paid for them.)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
All About Backstory
by Rachelle Gardner, Literary Agent
Backstory usually refers to narrative that tells something about a character's past. It's given in an informational style without real-time action or dialogue. Notice I used the word "tells." This is a clue about why backstory in the start of your novel can be detrimental. Backstory doesn't show, it tells, thereby risking losing the reader's interest.
Backstory usually refers to narrative that tells something about a character's past. It's given in an informational style without real-time action or dialogue. Notice I used the word "tells." This is a clue about why backstory in the start of your novel can be detrimental. Backstory doesn't show, it tells, thereby risking losing the reader's interest.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Teaching Authors--Six Children's Book Authors Who Also Teach Writing
Teaching Authors--Six Children's Book Authors Who Also Teach Writing
Living Inside the Story
Posted by mary ann rodman
From the time I taught myself to read, I have been an obsessive reader. My mother used to joke that the first time she saw me without a book was at my wedding. (Little did she know that one of the things that worried me the most that day was knowing that I didn't have a "good book" to take on my honeymoon!)
As a child, I was an undiscriminating reader. I read in the book aisle at E.J. Korvette's while my parents shopped. I borrowed books from friends, relatives, the neighbors. I read newspapers left in busses and cabs. Cereal boxes. Anything.
Living Inside the Story
Posted by mary ann rodman
From the time I taught myself to read, I have been an obsessive reader. My mother used to joke that the first time she saw me without a book was at my wedding. (Little did she know that one of the things that worried me the most that day was knowing that I didn't have a "good book" to take on my honeymoon!)
As a child, I was an undiscriminating reader. I read in the book aisle at E.J. Korvette's while my parents shopped. I borrowed books from friends, relatives, the neighbors. I read newspapers left in busses and cabs. Cereal boxes. Anything.
The Blood-Red Pencil: A Novel Checklist
The Blood-Red Pencil: A Novel Checklist
L.J. Sellers eight-point checklist.
L.J. Sellers eight-point checklist.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Straight From Hel
Another Viewpoint
Okay, we talked last week about the book price war going on between Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target. This week we kick off with another viewpoint. This one from Marion Maneker, who writes for a website called The Big Money who provides articles for The Washington Post and other newspapers. Straight From Hel
Okay, we talked last week about the book price war going on between Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target. This week we kick off with another viewpoint. This one from Marion Maneker, who writes for a website called The Big Money who provides articles for The Washington Post and other newspapers. Straight From Hel
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Alexandra Sokoloff: Story Elements Checklist for brainstorming index cards
Alexandra Sokoloff: Story Elements Checklist for brainstorming index cards
This week I will be posting separate posts for Act One, Act Two, Act Two, Part 2, and Act Three which will detail the different elements of each act, but I thought that for those of you already doing index cards, it would be useful for you all to have just a basic list that you can use when you’re watching a film or doing the index cards for your own story, so here it is.
Alexandra Sokoloff: Elements of Act One
So, now that we’ve talked about the index card method of laying out your story, and basic filmic structure as it might be applied to novels, the natural next question is: what actually goes into a first act?
This week I will be posting separate posts for Act One, Act Two, Act Two, Part 2, and Act Three which will detail the different elements of each act, but I thought that for those of you already doing index cards, it would be useful for you all to have just a basic list that you can use when you’re watching a film or doing the index cards for your own story, so here it is.
Alexandra Sokoloff: Elements of Act One
So, now that we’ve talked about the index card method of laying out your story, and basic filmic structure as it might be applied to novels, the natural next question is: what actually goes into a first act?
The Blood-Red Pencil: Crafting the Bones, Part I
The Blood-Red Pencil: Crafting the Bones, Part I
This is the magic of a well-written piece: for a few precious moments, you, as writer, hold the reader in the palm of your hand. Word choice, syntax, structure—all the elements of craft you spent so much time applying—fall away and your reader enters the world of story.
The Blood-Red Pencil: Crafting the Bones, Part II
Dr. Rudolph Flesch, a staunch advocate of writing with purpose, advised in his best-selling How to Write Better that “the main thing to consider is your purpose in writing: Why are you sitting down to write?” To which E.B. White tartly answered, “Because, sir, it is more comfortable than standing up.”
This is the magic of a well-written piece: for a few precious moments, you, as writer, hold the reader in the palm of your hand. Word choice, syntax, structure—all the elements of craft you spent so much time applying—fall away and your reader enters the world of story.
The Blood-Red Pencil: Crafting the Bones, Part II
Dr. Rudolph Flesch, a staunch advocate of writing with purpose, advised in his best-selling How to Write Better that “the main thing to consider is your purpose in writing: Why are you sitting down to write?” To which E.B. White tartly answered, “Because, sir, it is more comfortable than standing up.”
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
DeadTown
By Nancy Holzner
Click here for Nancy's Blog:
Amazon.com Editorial Review:
First in a brand new urban fantasy series that's "fresh and funny, with a great new take on zombies" (Karen Chance) and "full of dangerous magic and populated with characters so realistic, they almost jump off the page" (Ilona Andrews).
If you were undead, you'd be home by now...
They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Alexandra Sokoloff's blog
"The Dark Salon" has two articles, for the aspiring author of interest.
What is high concept?
What's your premise?
Happy Writing!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Murder, She Writes
Listen to Nancy Conner Holzner discuss her new book PEACE,LOVE And MURDER with Syliva Dickey Smith on Blog Talk Radio.
Don't miss this delightful author who will be visiting with Syliva. She has two new books out and more on the way.
Don't miss this delightful author who will be visiting with Syliva. She has two new books out and more on the way.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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