Tag: Forum Friday
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Forum Friday: Writing resolutions for 2014
Happy last Friday of 2013! Today’s Forum Friday comes with an announcement: Starting 2014, I will be writing this segment irregularly. That is, I’ll continue posting Forum Fridays when I have thoughtful, amusing, or otherwise meaningful prompts to share, but not every week. Maybe not even every other week. I started Forum Fridays close to…
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Forum Friday: Favorite books of 2013
What were your favorite books this year? They don’t have to be new as long as they were new to you! Here are some of my favorites (not presented in rank– they were all 5 stars for me): The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Gone Girl…
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Forum Friday: What do you recommend for magical realism?
This one’s for the readers– and for me, because I love magical realism, and haven’t read nearly enough of it. Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate may be the only full-length novel I’ve read that employs it throughout (ex: tears gushing into floods, quail cooked with rose petals that ignite feelings of passion when eaten,…
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Forum Friday: What’s in your story cellar?
I keep notes in many scattered places on things– places, events, phenomenon, mythology, unsolved mysteries, diseases, science, etc.– that I think would make for a good story, or else that fascinate me and would therefore be interesting to use in a story. Among them: The fact that false memories can be fabricated. Scholomance, a fictional…
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Forum Friday: What has the Nano experience taught you?
Just one more day of November and the madness that is Nanowrimo! Whether you’ve reached the magic 50,000 or not– whether it’s your first time doing Nano, your twenty-first, or you heard what Nanowrimo was and ran away screaming in terror– with every draft comes experiment, progress, and lessons. So what did you learn? What…
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Forum Friday: First person or third?
Which is your favorite point of view to write: first person or third? (Or second, if you’re into Choose Your Own Adventure. ;)) Which do you find easiest? Most challenging? What about tense? What POV and tense combination does your favorite book use?
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Forum Friday: Tricks for writing at a faster pace
This is the second year I’ve done Nanowrimo, and less than half way through the month I realize: hey. 1700 words a day is not anywhere near as hard as it used to be! I asked myself, What have I changed? and What am I doing right? and realized that this– tips for writing at…
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Forum Friday: Post a recent line of dialogue.
Hey guys! So, I know it’s a bit later than usual (Nanowrimo strikes again), but in the spirit of keeping things quick and interesting I thought I’d throw you another prompt: Post a line of dialogue you wrote recently, and tell us what it’s from. Also, if you’re participating in Nanowrimo and feel your story…
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Forum Friday: Plot Ninjas
Since today is the start of Nanowrimo, I thought I’d mix things up a little and rather than ask a question, prompt those of you reading this to provide a plot ninja. What is a plot ninja? A plot ninja is a random plot twist. “Protagonist finds a note taped to her refrigerator.” “Antagonist is…
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Forum Friday: Do you write in sprints or marathons?
What I mean by that is, Do you power-write in quick bursts (say, 300-500 words in an hour) or are you more likely to stake a place in a café or library for the day and work at a slower but steadier pace? I think this is an especially relevant topic as the ~1,700 word-a-day…
Julie Israel 