Friday, May 30th, 2014,Jordan Rosenfeldand I meet up at Mt. Madonnabefore the 18 intrepid writers who signed up for our weekend writers retreat. Our spacious cabin greets us. Anticipation envelopes us. The first writer arrives.So begins the 1st ever Writer Path Plot and Scene Retreat. Sign-ups now available for next year's Writer Path Retreat May 1st - 3rd, 2015! …
Beginnings Hook Readers. Endings Create Fans!
Beginnings Hook Readers ~ Endings Create Fans! In wanting to perfect their story beginnings to hook readers, writers often spend all their time writing and rewriting and rewriting the beginning. After messing with the beginning 10,000 times, writers often neglect giving the same sort of attention to the ending and fulfill their promise to their readers. Instead, try starting at the ending and work your way to the beginning. Yes, beginnings hook readers. Endings create fans. To help with this …
A Soul Shattering Tip How to Plot the End of Your Novel, Memoir, Screenplay
October 17, 1989, at 5:04:15 p.m. (PDT), the epicenter of a magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit nearly smack in my garden. The doorframe I clutched shifted erratically, the floor beneath me shook, the house creaked and moaned, and all water in the little neighborhood pool across the street shot into the air and broke over the side. As Robert Page, U.S. Geological Survey writes of the event: "It was a wakeup call to prepare for the potentially even more devastating shocks that are inevitable in the …
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Thematic Significance Statement Defines Every Story Decision
Writers toss out story themes. Theme words grow into what one romance writer aptly labels as tropes = common or overused themes or devises. Tropes typically become overused or cliched because they squarely connect with a universal truth. A thematic significance statement intended to embody the heart and meaning of your own particular story often begins with a trope. After writing a couple of drafts and with a better understanding of what all the words in your story add up to, now tack on at …
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A Love Letter to Writers
1) She asks if her ideas, her story is silly. I can't answer that for her. Only she can. I see her as a miracle, a jewel, a divine creation. How can anything silly come out of that? What I hear? Self-doubt and limiting self-beliefs likely based in criticism heard and internalized along the way? When you ask if your story is silly, dumb, stupid, say it out loud. My story is silly. How does that feel? Sound to you? Truth? I am silly. Really? Are you sure about that? Be careful what you say …
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