Grantville Gazette » Grantville Gazette Finding Your Way Into Your Story - WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® I recently avoided a workshop assignment that should have been completed in no more than an hour because I couldn’t find a way into my story. This workshop generates significant, raw material for me. New characters and compelling stories emerge; sentences flow, and everyone contributes imaginative, heart-stuttering stories. It’s a word-feast, and I was strolling along eating it all up, licking my fingers—when it vanished, and I found myself with word-sticky fingers, staring at a blank page. I had characters, an idea, but they were elusive. There exist strategies to help writers overcome a sense of feeling blocked, but that’s not my focus today. Character: Character is a writer’s lodestone, and we enter our stories in various ways through them: what they want, what they’re doing, how they look, what they think, how they feel. Courtesy: Pixabay Perspective: “This is the saddest story I have ever heard,” begins The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. Save Related Author Janet Gurtler on VOICE
Tor.com Project: Start a Commonplace Book Creating a commonplace book can help you keep track of your educational journey. It’s a place to record favorite quotes from the books you read, ideas you have, and questions that arise from your studies. Over time, your commonplace book will turn into a record of who you’ve been and how you’ve changed. You can use it to track the progress you’ve made and reflect on the thoughts that have shaped your life. What is a Commonplace Book? A commonplace book is essentially a scrapbook / compilation of information that the creator deems relevant. Wikipedia puts it this way: “Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books…Such books were essentially books filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. How Are Modern Commonplace Books Used? You can, of course, put anything you want in a commonplace book. How to Start a Commonplace Book
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