Archive for category What’s Not On the Page
Special Edition – Horror Writing: Playing an Insidious Game by Sidney Williams.
Posted by jarviswrites in Guest Bloggers, Responding to Writing Prompts, Special Editions, The Craft Of Writing, What's Not On the Page, Working Within Constraints, Writing about Death, Writing Advice on October 31, 2014
This month, 5writers.com is delighted to welcome guest blogger Sidney Williams. Sidney Williams is the author of numerous traditionally horror and thriller novels and short stories. His work has been released in e-book editions from Crossroad Press. Horror Writing: Playing An Insidious Game by Sidney Williams Writing horror is an insidious game, though it’s not […]
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 […]
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 […]