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Writing Resources
I love writing, but I also love teaching writing and encouraging or coaching other writers. This part of my website is the natural outgrowth of that passion.
From time-to-time, I will add information or websites that I hope other writers might find useful, like this one from Purdue University:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/index.html
The owl at the beginning of the URL mean Online Writing Lab and it is the creation of Purdue University. This particular part of their site is the introduction to Creative Writing resources. If you look to your left, you will see just a glimpse of all the great resources available to you here.
Keep watching because I will add more resources, mostly dependent on either what I need or what my students need.
So Let’s Talk About Editing!
Before you get into the four types of editing, I cannot emphasize a couple of practices you should adopt.
Conflict: The Life Blood of Every Story April 11, 2020
Watch for the arrival of conflict and how it affects people and how they deal with it. This exercise will help you a great deal when you write your own stories.
Writing Humor
But we don’t have to live in that darkness and sadness and dread. We are forgetting one of God’s greatest gifts to us: humor.
Pandemic: Writing It Real: For Fiction and Nonfiction Students
I’d never really seen someone steal before, and I wasn’t sure what to do. All I could think of was that poor old lady. That poor old lady.
Fiction Writing, Day 2: STORY
. Climax or major event where the main character faces the key or greatest conflict revealing who the character is on the way to becoming and who is his or her antagonist or greatest obstacle.
Memoir and Historical Fiction Notes from 3/4/2020 Carol Brennan King
Class Notes: Day 1 Introduction and defining our genres. In this class we talked about two related genres: Memoir and Historical Fiction. I am defining Memoir as a slice of your life, focusing on a single period of your life or a theme that threaded through your life over perhaps a longer time. Let’s consider…Read more Memoir and Historical Fiction Notes from 3/4/2020 Carol Brennan King
Memoir Summary December 12, 2019
A memoir is more than an autobiography or record of what you did or what happened to you over the course of your life. An autobiography is a broad look at your life. Think of a theme as “What this book is about,” or “What holds these stories together.
8 Ways To Use Movie Watching To Improve Your Writing December 4, 2019
If you take note of when and how these different techniques are used, you can apply them to your writing.
Ending Your Story or Book Nov. 20, 2019
A great ending is all in the build-up.
