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Archive for November, 2009
THE WRITER’S CAVE – Part 1
Posted in Agents, Autobiography, Biography, Book Proposal, Book Reviews, John Lehman, Manuscript Help, Memoirs, New Writing Contests, Query Letter, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, tagged Citizen Kane, Hank Quinlan, Orson Welles, Split Yugoslavia, The Writer's Cave, Touch of Evil Harry Lime on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL – Final
Posted in Agents, Autobiography, Biography, Book Proposal, Book Reviews, John Lehman, Manuscript Help, Marketing Plan, Memoirs, New Writing Contests, Query Letter, books, contests, creative writing, fiction, get published, nonfiction, poetry, publishing, reviews, writing, writing contests, tagged Developing Characters, Dialogue Do's and Don'ts, Foreshadowing, Subtext, Tristine Rainer, Truth in Autobiography, Writing Suggestions on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
A. Choosing and developing characters
pick minimum characters to convey scene
use the questions from the characterization, Exercise 3
(subtext). What is going on underneath the text. For example, if on the day your sister dies, you are buying a pair of gloves, the subtext of her death would greatly affect the way you felt, even if [...]
SAMPLE MEMOIR – THE STORY ONLY YOU CAN TELL 6
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CREATING AND FINE TUNING SCENES
Editing My Wife’s Autobiography
I am a saboteur
behind the lines
eliminating adjectives
adverbs and other
old lovers.
-John Lehman
In the following excerpt look for:
1. description (how much?–the telling detail, not adjectives or adverbs, get the audience to judge, use of motion, atmosphere—setting mirroring character, conflict or theme (remember “opposites,” [...]
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