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18.03.2012 20:13
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Categories: Screenwriting Writing Horror
Tags: monster movies sandy frank screenwriting
The Monster story is one of the favorite types of Myth Archetype: the main character goes through an Outer Story, and that Outer Story symbolizes an Inner Story of emotional change.
18.03.2012 20:06
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Categories: Writing
Tags: shery ma belle arrieta-russ shery ma belle arrieta writing
Writing isn't a "one size fits all" shirt. What works for me won't necessarily work for you. Your writing schedule may not be another writer's ideal schedule
05.01.2012 08:26
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Categories: Writing Tips
Tags: validate yourself motivation self-help shery ma belle arrieta
There have been times I thought, "I'll never make it as a writer. I should just give up."
28.12.2011 21:31
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Categories: Fiction Writing Writing Tips
Tags: fiction technique tip reaction evan marshall
In The Marshall Plan® novel writing system, there are two units of story action: the action section and the reaction section.
27.12.2011 09:56
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Categories: Fiction Elements Fiction Writing Writing Tips
Tags: personification writing shery ma belle arrieta
Personification is one of the more commonly used figures of speech. It is giving human attributes such as feelings, actions, thoughts and habits to non-human things (animals, objects or ideas).
26.12.2011 12:18
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Categories: Literature Short Stories
Tags: edgar allan poe short stories short story american literature
TRUE!-NERVOUS--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses--not destroyed--not dulled them.
22.12.2011 19:55
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Categories: Fiction Editing
Tags: guide improving writing ann roscopf allen
At the beginning of every semester I've ever taught college writing, at least one student in the class will issue the disclaimer, "I'm a terrible writer."
22.12.2011 19:45
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Categories: Novel Writing
Tags: finish writing novel novel ann roscopf allen
Trying to write a novel is ambitious, but finishing it is what gets people's attention. Many people have wonderful ideas for stories and have even begun to write books...
22.12.2011 19:21
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Categories: Novel Writing Fiction Writing Writing Historical
Tags: research historical novel ann roscopf allen
Whether you are fictionalizing historical events or making up your own story, attention to detail can determine whether your novel is credible to history buffs or if they’ll give it a pass.
The past tense is commonly used when writing a narrative or a story, as in: 1 Once upon a time, there was a peaceful kingdom in the heart of a jungle . . .
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