Sep 28, 2017 ... Said more simply, if you give thirteen writers a photo and ask them to write a story, you'll get thirteen completely different stories. I've ...
One Verb Stories (OVS) were a game changer for me and my program. Instead of trying to follow a traditional TPRS story script, I simply follow the same ...
Mar 10, 2021 ... Comments Section ... The 'was [verb]' can always be tightened by changing the verb to past tense. (Mary was running down the street = Mary ran ...
Feb 1, 2021 ... Comments Section · Boba and coffee shops · MCs who do ballet (OC's only) · Keeping track of emotional frequencies to avoid the same feeling all ...
Nov 7, 2018 ... The writer is willing to try something new—some kind of erotic romance short novel, for instance—to see if the writing can sustain itself. I'm ...
Jan 3, 2014 ... By being explicit, you'll have an easier time writing the API and writing automated tests for the API. When doing a user story session, I will ...
Jul 31, 2021 ... I didn't realize, when I first started writing for publication in 1994, that you could resell stories that had already been published. But the ...
Some essays might contain one or two very short anecdotes (an anecdote is a short, true story) to set the mood or illustrate a point or grab the reader's ...
Oct 16, 2018 ... In Writing Your Novel From the Middle, James Scott Bell uses the ... One of my favorite examples Bell uses is in Casablanca after a drunk Rick ...
Oct 21, 2020 ... Take all the elements I love the most, the things that make goosebumps rise up on my arms and drive other people to complain in reviews, and ...
Jul 10, 2019 ... I'm doing this primarily for people who consider themselves writers who want/have a long-term fulltime career writing down stories. What we ...
Aug 12, 2019 ... I'd gather most writers started writing because they love to tell stories. Characters speak to them, worlds unfold in the their minds, and they ...
Aug 18, 2020 ... As several of you mentioned, letting a story sit for a bit gives the subconscious time to mull it over. When the epiphany finally comes, it ...
This is a youtube video that shows how to get reluctant writers get writing. After more than a decade in the classroom, this seven circles strategy has worked ...
May 2, 2024 ... Reducing The Idea of You to Fan Fiction Is Another Example of Dismissing Women's Art ... I wanted to write a story about Solène Marchand, a woman ...
Apr 3, 2011 ... Students: What if we want to write fiction in Google Maps or Power Point? ... For example, Egan's power point story has an invented ...
I can only say that I often start stories with a couple of ideas that I smash together. ... It was fun writing a story in interview format. I love NPR and I love ...
Jun 13, 2010 ... I don't know how Slashdot did it, but they seem to have discovered exactly the four qualities that can make a piece of text good: being ...