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Every November, millions of people write as many words as they can in an attempt to form their very own novel. They find the time between work, school, family, holidays and sometimes life in general, to attempt to reach 50,000 words. Many of them succeed in the first day, and many of them blast past…
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Imagine how much work we would all get done if we stopped to research every little thing in our writing to make sure it was factually accurate. I don’t know about you, but I would probably get no work done. I would be so into researching and making sure that every little detail was painstakingly…
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“I was a ghost on your birthday”- Transient Love by The Menzingers. The letter was one of the smaller gifts waiting for him in the stacked pile of large oblong boxes. Brian would have almost missed it and it would have been thrown away in the refuse of blue and green wrapping paper, and thin…
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Over the past three weeks of How To Tuesdays concerning characters we have talked about how to find characters, how to name them, and how to develop characters. This week, is not necessarily a new How To, it is an addition to the rest of the information we have talked about. This week, we are…
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Fifty Shades of Grey in Our Culture: A View on Why Sarah Stevens Slapped Me By Joel Fisherman Before the introduction of Fifty Shades of Grey, there was Twilight. My stupid sister had to read all the books when they came out, and she begged my mom for weeks and weeks and weeks to take…
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Hello Readers! Special Message here: If I seem short during this Tuesday, blame WordPress. I had been working on this post for more than a week, almost 2000 words put into it, and then WordPress decided to be a butt and delete it all. So here is attempt number two! Some writers will tell you…
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Happy Monday! For some of us, Monday means going back to work, or school. For others, it means delving into personal work and projects. For me it means queuing up the blog for the week. What does this have to do with frustration? Everything. Last Friday, I decided to be proactive and write a little…
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Progress is measured in several different ways. If you are an athlete, progress is measured by how well you perform at your sport or sports. If you are an artist, progress is measured by your art portfolio. If you are a writer, progress is measured by words written on the page, and the amount of…
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The object to my left is an internal hard drive for a laptop. Life would be so much easier if people were hard drives. You would fill them up with all of your information, your pictures, your photos, your memories. And then, when you get sick of them, and all they contain, you can switch…
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There are several schools of thought on naming characters. Some say to name your characters names that are common every day names. Others say to name them special names that will stick in your readers’ heads. Still others tell you to always use name books and find the exact meaning of each of your characters…
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These lists are fun, and I definitely enjoy love songs more than hate songs! Every Thug Needs A Lady- Alkaline Trio Shut Up and Dance- Walk the Moon Gates- The Menzingers I Don’t Wanna Be An Asshole Anymore- The Menzingers The Luckiest- Ben Folds China- Tori Amos Joy Comes in the Morning- Red City Radio…
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Writing without characters is like riding a bike without wheels, you won’t get too far. Sure, there are pieces out there that have limited characters, but they at least have one aspect that has to do with the development of a personality or skills. Look at Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E. There is no dialogue for the first…
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Welcome to the next installment of Tuesday How To! This month I will be telling you all about characters and how to find and develop them. Let’s have some fun!
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Writing, like every other form of art, strives to make people feel something. This is usually accomplished by making the work feel real, using real emotions and situations that force the reader or the viewer or the participant to feel something. Sometimes, this means including things that hurt us, or make us feel vulnerable, dirty,…
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So This List is going to be fun! The Last Song I’m Wasting On You- Evanescence Fuck This, I’m Out- Off With Their Heads Untouchable Face- Ani DiFranco Radio- Alkaline Trio Fire and Ice- Pat Benatar I’m Looking Through You- The Beatles Mix Tape- Brand New Seventy Times 7- Brand New Passive- A Perfect Circle…
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We all get ideas, sometimes they are planned through brainstorming, or sometimes they come to us out of the blue. Sometimes finding ideas is the easy part, and sometimes it’s not so easy. You can get ideas from anywhere and anything, but sometimes the ideas you get aren’t enough. So this week, let’s talk about…
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The last book I read was Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. On a cold clear moore, in Scotland gay A pretty young lass loses her way. She travels through time, back and back and meets a sexy stranger who calls her “Sassenach”. Through several days of watch and suspicion, The chapters quickly turn to needing parents’…
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Last week, we talked about how to find ideas and how ideas are everywhere. This week we’re going to take it one step further and decide which ideas are good and which ones are bad. I don’t like the term “bad” since there are no bad ideas unless they are not your own. If you…
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Whether you write essays, or novels, or anything in between, you have an outline. As crazy as that sounds, even if you swear that you always write by the seat of your pants, you do have an outline, it just might not be written down. This week’s lesson has to do with physically outlining. And…