Archive for October, 2013
Special Edition: Do you NaNo? – A beginner’s guide to NaNoWriMo
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, Special Editions on October 27, 2013
By Jennie Jarvis Have you heard about NaNoWriMo? In a nutshell, it’s National Novel Writing Month, and it’s an internet based challenge whose purpose is to give writers the motivation and deadlines to write an entire manuscript in a single month. The challenge takes up the entire month of November, running from the 1st to […]
Writing a Good Story Means Creating a Lot of “Waste” in the Process
Posted by virgowriter in Brad, What's Not On the Page on October 23, 2013
Writing a Good Story Means Creating a Lot of “Waste” in the Process by Brad Windhauser When I was a kid, I loved these wood dinosaur models. I couldn’t wait to crack the box, pop all the bones out of the sheets of wood, and get to gluing. I’d meticulously punch out all the necessary […]
Ma? Ma! We’re All Crazee for Negative Space
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, The Craft Of Writing, What's Not On the Page on October 19, 2013
by Ron Hayes Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. -Lao Tzu When I was just a young lad, rooted still in the halcyon days of high school life, one of my first jobs was as a busboy at a restaurant my friend’s […]
What’s Not on the Page: Finding Yourself in Fiction by Emilia Fuentes Grant
Posted by jarviswrites in Guest Bloggers, What's Not On the Page on October 7, 2013
This month, 5writers.com is delighted to welcome back Emilia Fuentes Grant, one of our founding writers that has agreed to guest blog on the site today. Emilia is a multimedia writer who wrote the lyrics for the Emmy winning video Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage video. She loved books only slight more than movies. She teaches […]
Don’t Let Go – Gravity (A Review)
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, Reviews on October 5, 2013
by Jennie Jarvis In his book Write Screenplays That Sell The Ackerman Way, Hal Ackerman argues that Theme is the enemy of a screenwriter. “Theme leads to predictability,” he states, and while I don’t know if I would accept this statement as a blanket rule for all film writing, I understand where he is going […]
Passing The Flip Test
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, What's Not On the Page on October 3, 2013
by Jennie Jarvis Here on 5writers.com, we spend a lot of time talking about what’s on the page – characters, structure, plot, etc. But this month, we decided to do something a little different. We’re going to talk about what’s NOT on the page, and it should be a really wonderful month filled with diverse […]
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