Posts Tagged Writing tips
Cover Reveal for New Craft Textbook (News)
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, News on September 11, 2014
5writers regular contributor Jennie Jarvis is delighted to reveal the cover of her new craft textbook, Crafting the Character Arc: A Practical Guide to Character Creation in Development. This text is intended to provide writers of all formats and genres a road map they can use to create a fully developed character. Crafting […]
Performance as Publication: The Art of the Ten Minute Play by Allen Gorney
Posted by jarviswrites in Getting Published, Guest Bloggers, Submissions, The Business of Writing on June 23, 2014
5writers.com is proud to welcome back Allen Gorney. Allen Gorney is an author, screenwriter, actor, and script consultant living in the central Florida region. He has written several novels, screenplays, short stories, stage plays, and essays. As a screenwriter, he has earned recognition and critical praise from festivals and contests around the country. He has […]
Publication Announcement! (News)
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, News on May 23, 2014
We are delighted to report that one of our 5 Writers, screenwriter and novelist Jennie Jarvis, has just received word that her short story, “Waking,” has been accepted for publication. It will appear in the short story anthology The Florida Writer’s Association Collection #6, Featuring New York Times Bestseller Author Mary Burton. It will be available […]
5 writers Group Story – Part Two by Emilia Fuentes Grant
Posted by jarviswrites in Group Story, Guest Bloggers, Responding to Writing Prompts on May 13, 2014
5 writers Group Story – Part Two by Emilia Fuentes Grant For part one, please click here Two hundred miles away, Rachel stares out the window of a Greyhound bus, wishing she could shut her eyes, if only for a few moments. But it’s too dangerous for her to sleep in public, and absolutely out […]
Knowing When to Start a New Project: The Agent’s Perspective by Jennie Goloboy
Posted by jarviswrites in Guest Bloggers, How Do you Know You're Done, Rejection, Starting a New Project, Submissions on January 23, 2014
As you have probably already guessed, this month at 5writers.com, we focused on the theme “Knowing When To Start A New Project.” We all had our ideas on this topic, but one thing we couldn’t answer is this: What advice does an agent have on this topic? To answer the question, we turned to “the […]
Committing to a New Project
Posted by jarviswrites in Jennie, Starting a New Project on January 13, 2014
By Jennie Jarvis I don’t know about anyone else, but when I finished a major writing project – whether it be a screenplay or a novel – I fall into a deep depression. Unlike Brad, who wrote earlier this month about having multiple projects going, I can’t do that. I’m a one project at a […]
A-Listers and B-Sides: When to Abandon Your Poems
Posted by Ron Hayes in How Do you Know You're Done, Ron, The Craft Of Writing, The Writer's Life on January 8, 2014
by Ron Hayes The late French poet Paul Valery (1871-1945) is credited with having said, “A poem is never finished, only abandoned,” which, in my experience, is about as profound a concept as I can find. I think it’s true, art—and writing in particular—is often abandoned rather than completed, and regardless of whether it was […]
Those Who Can’t… Growing By Teaching
Posted by jarviswrites in Furthering the Craft, Jennie on November 30, 2013
By Jennie Jarvis If you’ve worked in academia in any capacity, then you’ve probably seen some form of this image: It’s called the Learning Pyramid, and it’s supposed to be a pictorial representation of how students tend to best remember the information that they are taught. As you can see, students tend to retain […]
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 […]
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