Tag: craft
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How to Write for Hollywood
Over at the blog Big Hollywood, Russ Dvonch deconstructs Charlie Chaplin’s picture, The Kid, to better understand what the ingredients are in great screenwriting.
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NaNoWriMo
In addition to the panelists at the Writing Show last night, there was a representative for NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month.
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Thematic Significance
From the Plot Whisperer blog, Plot Your Story’s Theme, comes a homework assignment: Make a list of recurring themes in your work.
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To Outline or Not to Outline: That isn’t the Question
Larry Brooks at Write to Done posted an article, Solved: The Outlining versus Organic Writing Debate. Writers for and against outlining their novels are missing the point, Brooks contends.
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How Fiction Works
Writers know that an essential part of honing our craft is reading the works of others. Not simply reading one word and sentence after another through the end, but pausing over passages, re-reading, picking apart, unpacking to understand what makes the work good, great or bad.