11 days ago by fuswork

I’m a huge fan of theme when it comes to writing. Why? Because it connects us all. Theme connects the writer to his audience; whether they the feel it or not; whether they agree with the writer’s point-of-view or not. Theme exists. So what is it and how can you use it? Below is a quick breakdown. I ...

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14 days ago by mbutler22

All stories are about people, even when they are about elephants. It is the being — the feeling and personality — inspired through imagination and a creative collectiveness of what surrounds us that develops a character. And the stories that move us, the ones you and I hold onto, have found the art ...

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23 days ago by Anjuelle Floyd

The protagonist's decision to act constitutes a cornerstone moment in the life a novel. It signifies the shift from the beginning or set-up of the novel to the middle characterized as a process of action and reaction, better known as cause-and-effect. Still others term this area of the novel, and qu ...

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24 days ago by Amy

Of course, if Mob read this blog every day, he would comment “I told you so,” and told me so he did. He pestered me about watching Galactica all 2009, and I began watching it then, but the first season took me ages to finish, due to anger issues. However, I got over them and watched the second seaso ...

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76 days ago by Lisa Gentile

A new study shows that the struggle to find meaning, particularly in reading Kafka’s absurdist story “The Country Doctor,” enhances certain cognitive abilities. Read the article at http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/this-is-your-brain-on-kafka-1474 My question to you: Will leaving the traditional cha ...

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77 days ago by Jordan

We were done with our series on character arcs, but then those pesky comments had to butt in again . Murphy, an awesome commenter and thinker from the community at Edittorrent, left a very insightful comment about characters who do and don’t arc last week, which I think could prompt some good discus ...

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81 days ago by Jordan

After all this talk about character arcs, I was browsing around on an interesting screenwriting blog, and found an article kind of a rguing against character arcs. So are character arcs necessary? The answer, of course, is it depends—and it depends on several factors. In plot-driven fiction, for exa ...

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84 days ago by Jordan

Yesterday, we talked about character arcs within scenes, and we mentioned that there are two different ways to handle them. The first kind uses scene structure to bring about the change. The second kind of change, however, doesn’t rely on scene structure because it doesn’t happen in a scene— it happ ...

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85 days ago by Jordan

So far, we’ve looked at character arcs on a macro level—characters changing over the course of a story. At the beginning of the series, however, Deb pointed out that characters can also have arcs within a single scene, where they go from one emotion to another, possibly opposite, emotion. Character ...

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89 days ago by Jordan

So we’ve figured out what drives our characters, and where they’ll start and end their internal character journeys. So what happens in the middle? Obviously, if our characters start at one extreme (fear, loneliness, naivete) and go to the other (courage, love, wisdom), some pretty extreme things are ...

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