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The Pixar Touch - history of Pixar - Blog - Pixar story rules (one version) Pixar story artist Emma Coats has tweeted a series of “story basics” over the past month and a half — guidelines that she learned from her more senior colleagues on how to create appealing stories: #1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. #2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer.

The Pixar Touch - history of Pixar - Blog - Pixar story rules (one version)

Story Starters. Stories in your pocket: how to write flash fiction. It's National Flash Fiction Day on Wednesday – the first one ever – and it's an exciting day for me and many others who specialise in this particular truncated form of prose.

Stories in your pocket: how to write flash fiction

A few years ago, I published a book of flash fiction called Sawn-off Tales. But until only a little while before that, I hadn't heard of flash fiction or micro-fiction or sudden fiction or short-short stories. Then, on poet Ian McMillan's recommendation, I parcelled up a manuscript made up entirely of this stuff and sent it to Salt Publishing, a poetry specialist. Fifty-eight stories, each exactly 150 words long. Life A short love story. Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips - Secondary English - video and audio. Learning Zone Class Clips - Mystery Ending: The Kid (pt 2/2) - English Video. Learning Zone Class Clips - How Famous Authors Get Their Ideas - English Video. Learning Zone Class Clips - Finishing a Draft - English Video. Learning Zone Class Clips - Elmore Leonard - Advice on Writing - English Video.

Learning Zone Class Clips - Developing Narrative Writing - English Video.