18 Thursday Dec 2014
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advice, author, craft a scene, find your story, how to tell a story, how to write, scene, story, tell the right story, write, writer, writing
Last Week’s WW: Dealing With Rejection and Looking for ARC Readers
Recently, I was writing a short story, and when I finished the first draft, I realized that I was telling the wrong story.
29 Thursday May 2014
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characters, delivery, how to, how to write, pacing, scene, scenes, story, story telling, write, writer, writing
Last Week’s WW: ESD: Extra-Sensory Descrption
Here is one of my deepest fears concerning writing:
The premise of the story is great.
The writing is top of it’s game, or at least, the best I can do.
The character’s are written consistently.
And yet… the book is awful.
It’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for some time. And, while all writer’s seem to think that their work is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever written, I have to imagine, it’s possible.
This is where we find another element of writing. Delivery.
19 Wednesday Mar 2014
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Last Week’s WW: The Life and Death of a Character
Stories are big. So big, in fact, that we cannot possibly show every piece of them. But then, who would want to? Is it really necessary to show Sir Wexbuttom cleaning the dishes after that disastrous dinner party? No. We want to see the dinner party.
Here’s 10 things to know about Scenes:
1) Something interesting or, even more importantly, intrinsic should be going on. Continue reading
26 Thursday Sep 2013
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Sorry that there was no flash fiction this past Friday. There will be one this Friday. Recently, I left my old job and started yet another new job, which thus far I like, although I’m afraid that it won’t generate enough $ and I will have to get a second job. Gotta do what we can to pursue the dream, right? Beyond, I’m taking a third crack at my book Otherworlders. Continue reading
Angela Cavanaugh 