Archive for the ‘Outline’ Category

Working Through the Concept

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Returning to the series of entries on writing, this week we are going to look at methods of working through the concept. In this case, we are going to continue looking at Cassandra West or the longer title, The Stories and Mis-Adventures of Cassandra West. In many cases, working with ...

The Crime Procedural

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

You really can't turn on the TV to scripted programming and not find a crime procedural show on. The two I like to watch are Bones and House - though the latter of the two is dressed in the garbs of a medical drama. What makes a crime procedural a ...

Fortunately and Unfortunately

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Plotting a story is (possibly) one of the harder elements to coming up with the bones behind the idea of the story. Sure, coming up with the plot statement: a statement of less than twenty-five words that defines where the story is going. However, one method used in teaching children how ...

On Alicia Grey and My Goals for 2008

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Well, December 31st, 2007 came and went. I did not finish the 90,000 word goal. It got to a point where I knew, in advance, that I would not hit that number and yet, I didn't bother about it. Things happen, minds change, and I realized that to get what ...

The Outline

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

When reading books on writing for movies, one of the many things that is suggested, and I think this goes for fiction as well, is the need to write an outline. We’re not talking about your run-of-the-mill elementary school outlines complete with numbers and letters and short descriptors. That’s lame, ...