Archive for the ‘On Writing’ Category
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Sorry it's been a couple of weeks with no posts over here. I've been busy with school and work and some new work (that may now be old work) that I haven't had, or made, time to be online and updating this website. However, I will try to be better ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
A couple of years ago I took a Wilderness Writing class. In this class the group of freshmen and sophomore and I all had to write and critique each other's writing. What seemed apparent in the class was that these kids, most between the 18 and 19, with the older ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I am of the opinion that most people get into writing because they were inspired by something that could be considered great. For me, the impetus where I realized I wanted to write was when I could sit down and read, by myself, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. ...
Posted in Lessons From the Frontline, On Writing | No Comments »
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Gathering the idea together is important.
What does this mean? Let's take another look at Cassandra West:
Cassandra is a young girl who is pulled out of her body and placed into the body of an older woman... herself, ten or twenty years older.
This is an idea. And it is where the ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
previous entry -- part I
Authors will tell you that finding an idea is not the hard part - rather, working through the idea is the hardest part in writing a book or story.
Writing a book is a long, lonely, and arduous task. Some people have the ability to do this ...
Posted in Cassandra West, Coherence, General Entries, On Writing, Orson Scott Card, Plot, Stephen King, T.A. Pratt, concept | No Comments »