Thursday, January 19, 2012
On Tuesday I shared some insights from a short story class I took last semester. I talked about one line of characterization, and how it completely mischaracterized my character in the exercise’s context. I said the single line got at the heart of what I learned, but in the end it was a really minor [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Last semester I took a class at OU called “Advanced Fiction Writing.” It’s one course in the midst of an entire Master’s degree that features only two classes not associated with advanced fiction writing, but that’s beside the point. “Advanced Fiction Writing” is an English class. The rest of my Master’s work has taken place [...]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
On Tuesday I wrote a little story about getting my mouth washed out with soap for singing some dirty words. I like that story. It characterizes me pretty clearly in a short scene or two. It also shows the inefficacy of corporal punishment (at least of the soap-based variety), because I’ve grown up to be [...]
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Being sick resets one’s brain to the basics. In three brief points, lets discuss some basics of good writing. We’ll look at story structure, rules for writing, and audience analysis.
Filed in For Fun
|
Also tagged Adverbs, Audience Analysis, Chicago Manual of Style, Christian fantasy, Colors of Deception, Demons of Saltmarch, Fantasy, Grammar Rules, KISS, Narrative Structure, Stephen King, Storytelling, WILAWriTWe
|
Way back when, I tried to start a series around here on some of the specialized storytelling terminology I’ve been learning in my Master of Professional Writing course. I got into Plates and Hooks and Scene Questions and Story Questions, and that diverted me off into a separate series on Story Questions. I’m not complaining. [...]
Filed in For Fun
|
Also tagged Alan Pogue, Catastrophe, Conflict, Creative Writing, Deborah Chester, Hidden Story, Master of Professional Writing, Plot, Revising, Scene Structure, Storytelling, Tips and Tricks
|
