Tag: Forum Friday
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Forum Friday: Excitement and Despair
In a video a friend recently shared with me titled How To Be Creative, author Julie Burstein says “Creativity is a cycle of excitement and despair.” Certainly my own writing experience has been something of a roller coaster, but that might have more to do with a certain feeling of zipping and plunging inexpertly from […]
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Forum Friday: Outlier Books
Have you ever read a book that did something totally different? I am thinking in terms of format specifically, but answers do not have to be limited to that context. A few outlier books that come to mind: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This book is a nesting doll of six narratives, following six characters (who are […]
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Forum Friday: What was the first part of your WIP that came to you?
It’s amazing to me how many places stories can spring from and what wild directions they can grow in. Every story begins as a single idea, whether in a scene, an image, a character, a name, a superpower, a concept, a line, a title, a prompt, etc. Drawing from my own experience, the starting point […]
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Forum Friday: Conferences, Expos, and Book Fairs, Oh My!
I recently signed up to volunteer at the book fair portion of a local writing festival and I am SO excited about it! Admittedly, of course, I haven’t been to anything that resembles a ‘Book Fair’ since grade school, when they used to send us home with those little flyers… So what I am really […]
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Forum Friday: What have you given up for writing?
Writing is a needy mistress. Whether it’s trading a favorite show to make time for reading or staying in on a Friday night to work on the next chapter, most of us have made sacrifices to placate the demands of the muse. I myself have come to see writing as a certain balancing act, and […]
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Forum Friday: Book vs. Film
Surely we have all watched a movie adapted from a book we enjoyed and either thought to ourselves, “Wow. They did that really well,” or “WHAT?!??” Deviations from the original are only to be expected I think, but certainly some are more successful than others. I would like to open today’s forum to talk about […]
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Forum Friday: Who do you write for?
I don’t just mean target audience (though feel free to include that in your answer); I mean, when you pick up a pen or open Word and start typing your chapter or story, is there a specific person you’re writing to? Many writers talk about writing for someone specifically within their target audience. Stephen King […]
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Forum Friday: How Do You Outline?
Unless you are a prodigy, a diehard pantser, or some combination thereof, an outline is an absolutely essential blueprint for writing a novel. An outline allows us to chart events, organize them, rearrange, cut, add, develop characters and motivations along the way. It’s kind of a like a scale model of an elaborate mansion or […]
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