Posts Tagged fiction writing
Beyond Edgar and Ezra: Back to School Edition
Posted by Ron Hayes in Ron, Special Editions on August 21, 2013
by Ron Hayes As the end of August draws near—and with it the end of yet another summer—the stores and the shopping malls tell us that the diminishing daylight and dropping temps can mean only one thing: Christmas is here! Okay, well perhaps not that quite yet. Of course we all know that with the […]
Surviving a Critique Group
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Special Editions on May 20, 2013
As writers, we spend a lot of time alone in a room with our characters and possibly a cat or two. We become very close to our stories, and sometimes we lose objectivity. Is my protagonist three-dimensional? Is the plot believable? Does the story flow? Are the sentences constructed with clarity? What’s up with that […]
Building Blocks of Storytelling
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Structure on April 23, 2013
You are a baby sitting in a high chair. Your parents, aunts, uncles, their friends are telling each other stories around the dinner table. Afterwards, you watch cartoons while the grownups chat some more. Later, your mom reads you a book (My fave: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein). You are absorbing it all. Story […]
A Conversation about Dialogue
Posted by wordimprovisor177 in Darlene, Dialogue on November 12, 2012
I was in a two-session writing from prompts workshop recently and one participant mentioned that he was scared of writing dialogue. He didn’t like it and thought he wasn’t good at it. Turns out he wasn’t as awful as he thought and with some tips and encouragement, he began to feel more confident, even two […]
Who We Are
-
Five Writers 