Archive for August, 2015

There’s a Story Here Somewhere

Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Evolving Stories on August 31, 2015

By Darlene Cah My team at work is really into self-awareness and self-discovery. We watch webinars, discuss our work habits, and take in depth personality tests. I must admit I love this stuff! Our most recent team analysis session had us discovering our “social styles” at work. Between the test results and the opinions of […]

Cathy Smith Bowers, creative writing, creativity, Darlene Cah, fiction, fiction writing, From Where You Dream, How stories evolve, Improv and writing, Improv theater, improvisation, improvising stories, Michael Gellman, narrative, Robert Olen Butler, story development

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Preparing For A Writing Conference

Posted by jarviswrites in Furthering the Craft, Getting Published, Growing Up A Writer, Jennie, Marketing, Special Editions, Structure, Supporting Yourself As A Writer, The Business of Writing, The Craft Of Writing, The Writer's Community, The Writer's Life, Working Within Constraints, Writing Advice on August 28, 2015

By Jennie Jarvis As many of you may know, we are smack dab in the middle of Conference season, and hopefully this means that you have already attended a Writing Conference this year or you are planning to attend one in the next couple of months. If you don’t have a Writing Conference on your […]

Jennie Jarvis, networking, pubtips, writing conference, writing goals, Writing tips

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Writing is Pre-Writing

Posted by jarviswrites in Evolving Stories, How I Write, Jennie, Starting a New Project, The Craft Of Writing, Writing Advice on August 19, 2015

By Jennie Jarvis Growing up, I always heard the well-known expression “Writing is Rewriting.” But once I started my formal training as a screenwriter, I heard something much different – “Writing is Prewriting.” What is Prewriting, you may ask? Prewriting is all the prep work you do before you sit down to actually write out […]

Jennie Jarvis, pubtips, screenwriting advice, the writing process, writing advice

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Depth by Darwin? A Primer on Poetic Evolution

Posted by Ron Hayes in Evolving Stories, Ron, Ron Hayes, The Craft Of Writing on August 13, 2015

by Ron Hayes As poets, our journey from the beginning to the end of a given work is unlike that of our colleagues who write in different genres. Where fiction writers must concern themselves with character arcs and plot holes, playwrights and screen writers grapple to create compelling characters and genuine dialogue, and essayists with universality and […]

Over-stacking the Narrative Deck: True Detective’s Messy Season 2 by Brad Windhauser

Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Reviews on August 8, 2015

Over-stacking the Narrative Deck: True Detective’s Messy Season 2 by Brad Windhauser TV shows can fail for several reasons. A project might be overly ambitious, the actors a poor fit for their respective roles, and/or the direction stiff, lacking, etc. In the case of HBO’s second season of True Detective, the main issue is the […]

Brad Windhauser, character development, narrative complexity, True Detective Season 2, writing constraints

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Allow Drafting to Evolve Your Stories: Using What Is to Help You See What It Could Be by Brad Windhauser

Posted by virgowriter in Brad, Evolving Stories on August 3, 2015

Allow Drafting to Evolve Your Stories: Using What Is to Help You See What It Could Be by Brad Windhauser What your story will become is usually quite different than what you imagined it to be when you began typing. The beauty of being the person adding words to the page is that you get […]

Brad Windhauser, drafting, revision, story evolution

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