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The Atlantic Monthly has a terrific article about what makes a good story and characterization. It’s a piece by author Tim O’Brien explaining how each time he sits in a writer’s workshop and manuscript critique the comments usually focus on verisimilitude when the real problem is a failure of imagination. O’Brien uses [...]
Continue Reading →Writer and teach Margot Case offered a brilliant workshop at he Richard Hugo House Write-O-Rama workshop entitled Ordinary People. We read excerpts from “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” by Donald Bartheleme, Sixty Stories.
I’d tried The Dead Father by Bartheleme, but found it at the wrong time and had never tried Donald Bartheleme [...]
Continue Reading →The essential elements of a marketable novel author Janice MacDonald teaches in her writing course are:
Hook Sense of place Interesting characters Compelling dialogue (she’s English) Strong storyline (one with a logical pattern) Appropriate pacing Distinctive voice Particular point of view Slowly revealed secret or answer (the presentation of information)
Ms. MacDonald refers to these [...]
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