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Category: Tools For Writers

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Don’t Find Ideas; Create Them!

Aug 27, 2019himself1 CommentTools For Writersfan fiction, Reclamation Project, writing prompts, writing tools

(Source: https://www.themarysue.com/riverdale-netflix-meme-video/) One of my writing pals contacted me yesterday: he was trying to write a story for The Reclamation Project but wasn’t happy with the results he was coming up with. In an effort to get his creative juices flowing, I sent him a link to a Pinterest board I had created to help…

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Fish In Trees: Giving Good Critique

Mar 25, 2019himselfTools For Writerscritique, writing groups

Picture if you will, the valar and maiar gathered around discussing creation. Reviewee: I have invented a new kind of animal! It lives in the water, has gills to breathe, and flippers that enable it to move. I call it a “fish.” Critiquer: Yeah, that’s good, but… what if this “fish” lived in trees and…

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Zootopia and 7-Point Structure

Apr 11, 2016himselfTools For Writers7-Point Structure, Snowflake Method, Zootopia

So sometime last week Matt Trepal (creator of Fight Cast or Evade) pointed me at a writing technique called “7-Point Structure.” It’s not that far removed from the Snowflake Method/Five Act Structure I’ve already been using, but it is different enough that it can give you new insights on a story. The best breakdown of…

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The First Rule of Write Club

Aug 15, 2015himselfMy Projects, Tools For Writers, Writing LifeBrigid and Greg, Scrivener, Sky Pirates of Calypsitania

For the past two weeks, when not sending off job applications, most of my time has been spent writing another novel. I had intended to hold off until November and do it as a NaNoWriMo project, but for whatever reason the book said, “NOAP, you will write me NOW!” and so I have been. As…

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The Write Stuff

Mar 27, 2015himselfTools For WritersBrigid and Greg, PG Wodehouse, Scrivener

Over the past few weeks, as my seemingly-never-ending house sale sits instead of going through, and my life is mostly packed up in boxes, I haven’t been able to work on art and have instead been working on one of my various mothballed novels (and making good progress, I’m very pleased to add). It is…

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