9 days ago by Kristin

If you've lived any amount of time, hopefully, you've seen your friends (and yourself) grow in character. As writers, we must always consider what our character's arc will be. How they will grow and become a better person. Character is often forged in tragedy. As I was watching "Hoarders" last night ...

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16 days ago by lyttleton

Tonight was the State of the Union address, but I didn’t watch it. Don’t take that as a political statement. I just didn’t happen to be home because I was out doing other things and didn’t make it home until after the rebuttals and punditry had played its round. So, where was I? At the [...]

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17 days ago by Rebecca Kiel

First-person allows us to see the unfolding of events through the narrators eyes. It invites the reader into the narrator's world. In writing humor, first-person is a great choice. One of the tricky aspects in writing from a first-person perspective, is that the narrator is telling the story. "Show, ...

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32 days ago by Ivory

A good goal/ motivation can be defined in a just a few words, or even just one word. Given example: freedom http://lydiasharp.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-blog-reader-favorites-what-i.html

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60 days ago by Joanna Aislinn

Happy Monday, friends and blog followers–y’all make me so happy! A few weeks behind wanting to share this but this seems as good a time as any (and I couldn’t come up with anything else, lol). Yep. I’ll admit it. I’m a Dancing with the Stars junkie. Whenever the season’s about to start or is in full ...

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64 days ago by Merrilee

Before 2012: Supplies and a plan 2012: Q1 The first quarter is all about the big picture. You’ll be looking at your story as a whole. This is the phase where you chop entire sections, revisit soggy plot devices and give those wimpy characters some backbone. Hook versus climax Plot arc Character arcs ...

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83 days ago by Pat Bertram

A couple of days ago I wrote a blog postulating that Without Changes, You Have No Story, and I stick to that premise. Characters need to change, the relationships of the characters to each other need to change, story expectations need to change, the direction of the story (and each scene) needs to c ...

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85 days ago by Sarah Duncan

A common story arc is to start a novel with a main character who is down in the dumps and to show their recovery from whatever it was that was depressing them in the first place. For example, a woman who's recovering from a bruising divorce will end up triumphant with a new life that was much better ...

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90 days ago by meekthegeek

Anyone sitting down to write a story, whether it’s for television or any other medium, has to decide where to start. It seems like a simple question. You start at the beginning. A protagonist’s story arguably starts from the moment of his or her birth, or earlier. So for purposes of this discussion ...

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91 days ago by Ivory

Even if the character does encounter a random event, on a deeper level it should have personal relevance. http://letsschmooze.blogspot.com/2011/08/lessons-on-pitching-hook-and-character.html As with life, a random encounter may subtly alter the character's mood and trigger a decision later that migh ...

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