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Things happen because the plot says they should. All fictional realities have this underlying principle to one degree or another. It is the reason Plot Technology and Plot Armor work. It's why The Good Guys Always Win in the end, even though many individuals may try and fail and die gruesomely before the protagonist comes along . It's why it seems like the world's out to get the protagonist , it's why the reasonable explanation is almost never true, it's why someone can be Genre Savvy or Wrong Genre Savvy , why a trope can be invoked , why a Million to One Chance crops up nine times out of ten and why it's never a good idea to Tempt Fate .
Theory of Narrative Causality
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I wish I’d known that I didn’t have to get it right in the first draft.7 editing questions to make work sparkle - The Writer Magazine
Writers rarely like to revise, but revision is a reality of the writing process—and more important than the initial draft. Without revision, you can’t realize the true potential of the story you envisioned, and it will likely never be published.
I’m a memoir writer and a retired nurse practitioner. I’ve also been consumed by my writing for the past three years.
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In celebration of the launch of writing.ie, LOADS of brilliant Irish authors have passed on their tips - I'm thrilled that we hit 100 effortlessly, demonstrating just how generous Irish writers are to new writers.
100 Tips from Ireland's Top Authors
We've teamed up with The Next Chapter to present The Canada Writes Literary Smackdowns, an essay series in which authors sound off on various writing topics. No writers were injured in the making of this series.
Canada Writes - Shyam Selvadurai vs. Robert Hough: Write what you know/Write what you don't
Courage 2 Create
This post is a part of an ongoing series entitled MIP (Man In Progress) . After my 25th Birthday I decided to improve three aspects of my life ( my writing career was one of them) . My philosophy is that a writer’s work and his life are irrevocably intertwined and in order to improve one we inevitably have to improve the other. I was having a conversation with a reader the other day. She was telling me about how she was writing her memoir, and how transformative and uprooting the process was. She knew that she loved writing but she told me she kept “wondering” about her choice to write in the first place.
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Narrative voices … mother and daughter reading aloud. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
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Who’s whose wife or husband, what the time period is if that matters, why these people have broken into this house, and on and on, just the basic, ground-level facts about your story. If you don’t relay that stuff up-front, as quickly and efficiently as possible (and please don’t be fancy), then your story becomes a game of three-card-monty, with you hiding information under this or that shell, trying to keep everything moving fast enough that nobody knows what’s going on. Which is to say your story becomes about the reading of the story, not the experience the story is trying to get the reader to engage.prompts, lessons, and resources for writing classrooms
WritingFix: Sharing Quality Writing Lessons techniques strategically designed to "fix" reluctant writers and writing teachers Our Northern Nevada resource website freely shares with the world! Here in Northern Nevada, our local writing project (the NNWP ) sponsors an amazing amount of high-quality teacher workshops, on-site seminars, and annual inservice classes. They also sponsor this WritingFix website, which launched back in 2001 as an online place for the NNWP's workshop presenters to post their classes' demonstration lessons and resources. If you navigate this website's menu bar (at left, in the light blue area), you will quickly discover pages dedicated to our local inservice classes and their instructors, as well as hundreds of complete writing lessons developed during these local workshops, and thousands of student samples submitted by teachers all over the world who--even though they're not from Northern Nevada--use our posted materials to inspire their students to write.Assemble a Quality Portfolio | Pan-European MFA - Creative Writing
Whether you’re assembling writings to submit to an MFA program or to share with a local writers’ group, it’s important for you to select work that shows your full range of talents.If this is indeed the year of reading more and writing better , we've been right on course with David Ogilvy's 10 no-bullshit tips , Henry Miller's 11 commandments , and various invaluable advice from other great writers .
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Set up Your Story in the First Paragraphs
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