If you want to publish something significant, it really helps if you have some name recognition. You get that by getting published. Starting small. Like articles. Like entering contests. Like putting your toe in the water where the water is warm and friendly at first.
Writing Class Notes
Creative and Memoir Writing Class
The first mistake that we talked about was the idea that you had to write “the most beautiful prose in order to write a story that holds the reader’s attention.” The reality is that by the time you purchase or borrow from the library any book, it has been through the hands and efforts of many professional editors. So, just get your story down; remember that the first draft is just a first draft. Once you have your ideas on paper, you can polish them to your heart’s content, and your editor’s heart’s content.
Fiction and Memoir Class – November 2022
Often your words gave me similar impressions that embedded in my mind and made it crackle. I like crackling. You also made me better understand the additional peril for the immigrants when they tried to sound more English to avoid being attacked by them.
Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes
October 26, 2022 Carol Brennan King We have been talking about writing techniques useful for both fiction and nonfiction or memoir writing. Then this last week, I was reminded of the power of voice in both genres. So next week, well, this week in class, I will tell you the story of the importance of…Read more Creative and Memoir Writing Class Notes
For Memoir Writers and Thriller Writers
Let what you have written gel for a while, and sifting through for your most intriguing ideas, search for the stories that are emerging, and the stories that link together in a way that your reader is pulled along. You are looking for stories that will stand alone, yet connect with each other in that Triptych frame.
Creative and Memoir Writing Class scheduled for Oct. 12, 2022
Then, what do you know about the character you are focusing on for this exercise: his or her place in history or life? Do they have a position of influence? Are they bound by their place in the culture of the community where the action occurs? Or have they been influenced by the events that impinged on life before the story opens?
Creative and Memoir Writing Plot, Scene and Chapter September 28, 2022
The point is both scenes and chapters have a place in your story’s pacing. Short chapters tend to move the action along quicker. Longer chapters might lull you into relaxing with the longer flow of information and less tension. Remember, both scenes and chapters have a part in how quickly your story unfolds, and how your reader experiences the story.
Creative and Memoir Writing
First of all, if you don’t know your audience, you cannot very well market your book or story or article. So let’s talk about genre or markets.
Creative and Memoir Writing: The Right Editor or Coach, Part 1 September 7, 2022
I have a coach, and she really helped me finish my book by requiring me to turn in weekly goals - like I will write four days this week for a least 90 minutes a session. That worked for me...
Writers: This alert is for you! July 27, 2022
I never envied your clothes, homemade and thin of fabric. I never envied your dented car nor your life on a farm small farm, the barely scrape-by kind of farm. I never envied you until,
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