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- April 23rd, 2013, 5:26 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Good grammar test: can you pass?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4376
Re: Good grammar test: can you pass?
Ughhhhhhhh. And then, there is always how do characters "sound" when speaking, that must be considered (as many people do not use fully correct speech). As for the dialect of gerund, there seems to be a fierce political standoff between the anti-gerund at all costs and gerunds are my birth...
- March 23rd, 2013, 8:07 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Best Medicine For Knowing You Can Write
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4116
Best Medicine For Knowing You Can Write
Not (really) spouting my miseries. Okay, Am. Broken car heater in middle of winter. Hard drive crashed and all was unrepairable, lost all passwords and software (luckily I backed up my writing THIS time), new Firefox refused my old passwords (that I had stored in a book), all after spending a week g...
- March 21st, 2013, 4:33 pm
- Forum: Connect With a Critique Partner
- Topic: writing coach partner
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7645
Re: writing coach partner
New Post: I have, in the past, used this type of partnership for up to sixteen weeks. Lately, an 8 week agreement is better. On my latest 8 week experience: WOW, I have made great, consistent progress on an editing job that I was -previously- procrastinating on! Yea! I have also found the following:...
- February 25th, 2013, 12:59 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Third-Person, Omniscient
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7427
Re: Third-Person, Omniscient
I just read an article that compared "bad" head-hopping to "good" or artful head-hopping and referred to The Old Man and the Sea , Hemingway. So I picked up my copy and read the opening again and yes, he does go from inside the man to inside the boy to even inside the group of fi...
- February 17th, 2013, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Third-Person, Omniscient
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7427
Re: Third-Person, Omniscient
Thank you, Polymath. Raconteur: A new term to me. And now I have just started down a good journey to learn more and found this most entertaining NYTimes article: The Voice of The Storyteller by Constance Hale http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/25/the-voice-of-the-storyteller/ which I also ...
- February 16th, 2013, 3:07 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Third-Person, Omniscient
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7427
Re: Third-Person, Omniscient
Polymath, you describe the harsher side of that position. Preachy or chauvinistic. Definitely out of style. I am thinking about it in a more modern, enjoyable format. A storyteller voice. Even such as around the campfire, a primitive retelling of beloved or mythic or tribal tales. Not necessarily fo...
- February 13th, 2013, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Third-Person, Omniscient
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7427
Third-Person, Omniscient
I am thinking a LOT about Third-Person, Omniscient, wanting to get clear -or clearer- on it. Is this the POV of the fairytale narrator? How about The Princess Bride ? The narrator seems a voice in and of itself and can see and understand inside all the characters. Do I have this right? If not, what ...
- January 22nd, 2013, 5:03 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: 2013 Writing Goals
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8697
Re: 2013 Writing Goals
I'd like to commit to just writing four days a week -for several designated writing periods this year- (and I don't care how much I write, just that I write or edit on those days). And I'd like to find a writing partner to check in with briefly on those four days as that keeps me on task for at leas...
- January 22nd, 2013, 4:39 pm
- Forum: Connect With a Critique Partner
- Topic: writing coach partner
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7645
writing coach partner
I'm looking for something a little different: a writing coach partner. (And, then, maybe, down the road, sharing critiquing.) I've done this writing coaching thing before and found it very helpful and productive. How my format works is this: The goal is to write everyday Mon-Thurs. It can be one wor...
- January 15th, 2013, 2:44 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: The Current Trend of Using Action Noun Titles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4967
The Current Trend of Using Action Noun Titles
Like Polymath (but no way as informed or intellectual on these things), I take time -especially when my curiosity gets that pique- to try to learn and improve my understanding of language and grammar. Anyway, lately, I have noticed what to me seems a big trend in titles that are (one word) verbs-tur...
- January 10th, 2013, 12:10 am
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Need to revise a sentence.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3429
Re: Need to revise a sentence.
His father used to tolerate Joe, but that was when Steven was still alive. Now his father hated him. Joe should have died instead of his brother Steven, but that was something even his father could not, with all his power, change. Joe had lived while Steven had died. Even to please his father, Joe ...
- November 16th, 2012, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: Realistic Action
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3618
Re: Realistic Action
Hi. Well, realistic? No, but continue on: It's Entertaining as Hell! I am VERY entertained. I love it when a character acts out of the expected, (expected in like hunkering down, guilty as discovered). Instead, audacious! I think it's really a fun move. (To me, it's much like when the bad dude on Ra...
- November 7th, 2012, 4:29 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: How many Characters do you have?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 22980
Re: How many Characters do you have?
In my current WIP:
1 main character told two ways.
4 supporting characters with woven subplot story lines.
13 minor characters, all with back stories that connect to the lead and supporting characters.
and
15 characters incidental to certain scenes.
33 characters total.
1 main character told two ways.
4 supporting characters with woven subplot story lines.
13 minor characters, all with back stories that connect to the lead and supporting characters.
and
15 characters incidental to certain scenes.
33 characters total.
- October 16th, 2012, 12:14 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: The art of the one sentence synopsis
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8537
Re: The art of the one sentence synopsis
Oh, And the other thing. What if it ends up just looking so simplistic. If the story is that simplistic, my concern is then how are you enticing someone to want to read it? I mean, imagine you are a romance novelist and the one sentence (or paragraph trying to disguise itself in a sentence) reads so...
- October 16th, 2012, 12:11 pm
- Forum: Writing
- Topic: The art of the one sentence synopsis
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8537
Re: The art of the one sentence synopsis
One of my three page synopsis attempts has gotten me a number or requests for fulls or partials, so I think it's been pretty successfully received. But after thinking on this thread, and whittling one down to two paragraphs, I went back and reread some articles on writing a synopsis and I think I mi...