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Aug.10.2012
One of the bridges to cross in learning writing technique is that of objective points of view. Hemingway started this, as far as I know, merging his journalistic perspective on writing into fiction.
image via csustan.edu
If you haven't come across this, let me explain, ever so briefly:...
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Apr.27.2012
Yesterday I listened to the Saturday Drama on BBC Radio 4. It was An Inspector Calls with Toby Jones, who I just saw in Titanic and Tinker Tailor, in the lead.
The play takes place in a factory town in the UK in 1912, and covers the same territory as my digital trilogy about...
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Mar.30.2012
In the last couple of weeks, among the books I’ve been reading have been two that combine remarkable risk-taking in subject matter with deep, rich research and gorgeous structures: Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, which I’ve been rereading as part of my winter teaching, and my friend Melissa Pritchard...
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Mar.15.2012
There’s a homeless man named Spencer K. Montague at the heart of Shadows and Ghosts...an odd figure in a story driven by women.
He wasn’t in the original design of the book. In fact, he wasn’t even created for the book later on. He was fished out of the bottom of the desk drawer where I’d put...
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Feb.18.2012
They say writer’s write. It’s been almost a month since I posted to my blog and I wonder if writers ever get distracted like I do or if distraction is just another convenient excuse. It’s not as if I abandoned writing altogether. I was invited to be a guest blogger for www.artsjournal....
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Jan.13.2012
Friday afternoon, I listen to an American haiku and say to a poet friend of mine,
“In Japan, we call that a senryu, not haiku.”
“After I finish reading this book,” she says lifting a book, “I’ll give it to you. Tell me what you think?” The title of the book was something like “...
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Dec.14.2011
After an on-and-off research effort over some fifteen years for a historical fiction piece on a medieval person, I'm finally close to the actual writing.
The most common problem in such an effort is as one professor called it, "finding a way in" to the piece. This means: start as the person...
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Oct.17.2011
Today's picture goes with last week's post about discovery drafts vs editing as you go. It' a t-shirt I saw in a catalog and couldn't resist. Maybe I'll wear it to my next RWA chapter meeting.
Because I'm going to be doing a workshop on Point of View at the Emerald City conference, I thought I...
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Sep.27.2011
Point of view is one of the most important decisions that a writer makes when writing a story. This is because point of view dictates how close the reader comes to the characters as well as how the narration is related to the reader. It is trendy these days to get as close as...
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Sep.27.2011
Over, the last few years I’ve critiqued a number of novice writers. The number one mistake I find is failure to make a conscious decision about the point of view. I say ‘conscious decision’ because they have to choose a point of view in order to write, but usually that decision is...
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