How to Use These 7 Pixar Story Hacks On Your Screenplay, by Shanee Edwards
By: Shanee Edwards, from http://screenwritingumagazine.com/2016/06/17/use-7-pixar-story-tricks-screenplay Pixar storyboard artist, Emma Coats, once tweeted 22 rules that Pixar movies always try to...
View ArticleHow to Critique
From: PNWA The purpose of a critique is to assist the author in gaining new insight into their own work as early as possible in the writing process. Rules For When You Give A Critique ALWAYS start...
View ArticleThe Nazi-Holocaust Survivor Romance Novel You Weren’t Waiting For, By...
From: http://forward.com/sisterhood/318755/nazi-romance August 7, 2015 A few weeks ago in New York City, Romance Writers of America held their annual conference. The agenda included the RITA awards,...
View ArticleIs My Novel Offensive? by Katy Waldman
From: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2017/02/how_sensitivity_readers_from_minority_groups_are_changing_the_book_publishing.html How “sensitivity readers” are changing the publishing...
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Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling
Recommended by Randy LaBarge. From: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic-emotional-arcs-of-storytelling by Emerging Technology from the arXiv; July 6, 2016....
View ArticleWhy Most Readings Suck and How to Fix It
From: http://www.deadendfollies.com/blog//2016/04/essay-why-most-readings-suck-and-how-to.html * [Dead End Follies] Editor’s note: Gabino came back from AWP shirtless and green this week, so I asked...
View ArticleHow Not to Open a Short Story, by Philip Athans
From: https://fantasyhandbook.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/how-not-to-open-a-short-story, by Philip Athans November 27, 2012 I generally don’t like this kind of negative approach: lists of what not to do....
View ArticleFind and Work with Beta Readers
Great advice on finding and working with beta readers here: https://janefriedman.com/find-beta-readers; January 18, 2016 by Kristen Kieffer.
View ArticleWorking with Beta Readers
Looking for inspiration on finding and working with beta readers? Here, read this! https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2014/03/5-things-you-should-know-about-working-with-beta-readers, By Corina Koch...
View ArticleHow to Write a 1-Page Synopsis
At our July 2017 meeting, Maureen talked about the process involved in traditional publishing. An important part of that process is writing a synopsis of your manuscript. She’s found this article that...
View ArticleLevels of Conflict, by John Vorhaus
From: http://writerunboxed.com/2013/07/25/levels-of-conflict By John Vorhaus on Jul 25 2013 at WriterUnboxed.com Whenever I have a problem I can’t solve, I immediately try to break it down into...
View ArticleStorytelling Strategies: Spotlighting Inner Conflict, by Paul Joseph Gulino
January 25, 2016 From: http://www.scriptmag.com/features/storytelling-strategies-spotlighting-inner-conflict Do your characters need an arc or inner conflict to make a screenplay work? Spotlight...
View ArticleThe Key Ingredient for Dramatic Tension–Understanding the Antagonist, by...
By Author Kristen Lamb, posted in Antagonist on April 23, 2012 From: https://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/tag/role-of-the-antagonist Today I wanted to take some time to talk about the antagonist. Why?...
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Query Letters Part 1: The Pitch, by Annie Neugebauer
From: http://writerunboxed.com/2016/07/09/query-letters-part-1-the-pitch Last time I did my best to convince you that the query letter is a skill worth mastering. The heart of the query, your pitch, is...
View ArticleWhy Book PR Can Have the Most Impact BEFORE You Land An Agent, by Sharon Bially
From: http://writerunboxed.com/2016/06/13/why-book-pr-can-have-the-most-impact-before-you-land-an-agent The question of how important book promotion is to sales and an author’s career is the subject of...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Pep Talk by Roxane Gay
From: https://nanowrimo.org/pep-talks/roxane-gay Before I wrote my first novel, An Untamed State, I wondered if writing a novel was something I could do. The sheer scope of the task overwhelmed me. I...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo Pep Talk, by Daniel Jose Older
From: https://nanowrimo.org/pep-talks/daniel-jose-older My favorite advice of all time for writing (and life) comes from a poem by Antonio Machado: “Caminante no hay camino / se hace camino al andar.”...
View ArticleI Talked to 150 Writers and Here’s the Best Advice They Had, by Joe Fassler
From: lithub.com/i-talked-to-150-writers-and-heres-the-best-advice-they-had I once heard John Irving give a lecture on his process at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an in-depth account of the way his...
View ArticleThe Essential Ingredient of Hard Choices, by Chuck Wendig
N.B. This is a sanitized version of the essay by Chuck Wendig; please see the original for the more colorful Wendig. From:...
View ArticleThe Complete Guide to Interior Monologue
From: https://www.novel-writing-help.com/interior-monologue.html Interior monologue is the fancy literary term for a character’s thoughts in a novel. In real life, the stream of thoughts we all have...
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