Often in real life and news reports, we witness spontaneous and raw emotion. Not something we're privy to much in our everyday lives, having been taught to control our emotions as demonstrated by our show of emotional development and maturity. Many shy away from bearing witness to some of the most raw and painful shows of emotion -- rage, sorrow, jealousy, aggression, grief. Some judge shows of spontaneous and raw emotion childish / dangerous / uncomfortable. Buck up, we're taught. Everyone …
Where To Start: How To Write the Exact Right Beginning of Your Story
Pain shoots up from the bottom of her foot, enough so she limps and is forced to wear heavy boots with firm arch supports. Hearing the pain started about a month into writing a memoir and that she hasn't moved very far into her story even after more than seven months of writing scenes long-hand, I suspect that her foot pain and writing pain were linked.Often problems with the feet indicate difficulty moving forward. I ask her what the problem is with moving forward with her story."I don't know …
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Witness a Writer’s Transformation
Her self-talk is brutal about how she never follows through on her writing goals, shakes her head at how many vacation days she's taken for the express purpose of writing the entire time only to veg in front of the television telling herself all sorts of loser stories about herself to herself, sinking deeper into despair and the impossibility of her situation. That's all backstory. Her inciting incident in this scenario in her life is when she signs up with me. In the next few months, she shows …
Task Analysis to Creating Exciting Scenes in the Middle of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
When I worked in special education, we preformed a task analysis of school activities children struggled with to determine the hierarchical concepts and cognition, steps and skills needed to master the given tasks in the classroom. Starting with a specific goal assigned by the teacher, we'd break the necessary behavioral sequence into steps allowing for adaption, modification and compensation. Like scenes on a Plot Planner, each step sequentially leads to the successful completion of said …
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How to Write a Story Concept for More than One Point-of-View Character
To give you an idea of the sort of help and support every writer needs, a writer watching the PlotWriMo: Revise Your Novel in a Month videos asks on A Path to Publishing FB group: How do you write a concept for more than one pov? Concept Who Wants What? Antagonist Stopping her? Motivation? Concept extraordinaire Jill Corcoran answers with this example: SHOE STUD is a romantic comedy told from alternating pov of the descendants of rivaling shoe dynasties in which Steve, a …
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