Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
So, you have an idea and want to follow it. The idea is taking a dog, who can talk, a cat who can't, a couple of kids and an adult who lives in a sewage drain and they are going to go on an adventure.
You have a good idea where ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I was pleased to discover, the other day, while reading a book on fairy tales, that there are six major fairy tale types. These are:
Sleeping Beauty
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Snow White
Bluebeard
and Beauty and the Beast
These are the major, archetypal, fairy tale stories. These stories can be found in many places in ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
POV is important to realize, in part, because you are dealing with specific elements of story telling.In this context, who the POV character, or characters, is brings into the question whether or not the narrative of the story is reliable, unreliable, or even semi-reliable.
The reliability of the narrator is ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
What is POV?
Well, simply put it is Point Of View. Which then leads to: What does this mean? (You might've added some colorful language. That's okay.)
POV is the point from which a story is told. Specifically, it is the character you follow as a reader. In most stories this character ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I sat down to speak to an author the other. By author I literally mean someone who has, and does, make his living primarily from writing fiction.
We started talking about some things that I'd e-mailed him earlier in the year and then dropped, after this, we proceeded to talk about ...
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