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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Clutter Control
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.” “People read with their ears, whether they know it or not.” William Zinsser On the bookshelves of many … Continue reading
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Insightful Instructions
“Obstacles are instructions, not obstructions.” Brian Tracy Hitting a writing roadblock is no fun. These potholes of the page can take many forms: We can find ourselves struggling with a thorny plot point or a character whose energy seems to … Continue reading
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Truth Telling
There’s something about a great piece of theater that thrills and mystifies. We see characters up on a stage and we know they’re characters and that they’re up on a stage, but somehow we enter into a different world with … Continue reading
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Tagged A Moon for the Misbegotten, Eugene O'Neill, Luna Stage
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Publishing Pointers
“You have to learn how to pick the right idea, develop deep fascinating characters, write believable dialogue, build a world, create suspense, hone your voice, craft a plot with a satisfying beginning, middle and ending, edit edit edit, rewrite rewrite … Continue reading
Playing Around
“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” Arnold Toynbee After a major work funk yesterday and feeling pretty low, I rebounded today. How did I shake myself up and get myself energized and excited again? … Continue reading
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Revision Checklist
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” W. Somerset Maugham “Poetry lurks in simple language. Great story does, too. You don’t need big words or tangled phrasings or clever stunting to convey … Continue reading
Seeing Clearly
“See a thing clearly and describe it simply.” Arthur Brisbane How easy that sounds and how hard it is to do! That’s what’s mastery is, isn’t it? To see clearly and to capture what you see simply and forcefully? Think … Continue reading
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Scene Design
Scene development is critical to good storytelling, whether the work at hand is a play or a novel. Building a story scene by scene takes time, patience, and a large dose of ingenuity. It’s often tempting to use scenes as … Continue reading
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New World
“Authors Turn to a New Publisher They Trust: Themselves” — this headline in a recent New York Times story really caught my attention. In the latest dispatch from publishing land, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author David Mamet has decided … Continue reading
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Tagged David Mamet, new role for literary agencies, self-publishing
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