Archive for the ‘Plot’ Category
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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
The question was asked: What is exposition?
I am relatively certain that this word is not common when talking about fiction. Most people want to use terms like show and tell and leave out longer and more difficult words and concepts. However, as a person who comes to fiction as ...
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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 ...
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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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