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Category Archives: Writing
Year Nine
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In my forty-odd years of employment, I kept a list of things I wanted to do, but for reasons of expense or time, I had to put off. “Fly an airplane” was one of them. “Write a novel” was another. … Continue reading
The Antagonist’s Plan
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Stories are usually focused on one character called the protagonist. Readers see through their eyes, experience their emotions, and thereby escape their problems for a little while. Such is the attraction of good fiction. For the majority of these stories, … Continue reading
Two Kinds of Writers
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I see two kinds of writers at the writing groups I attend. First and most common are the ones doing personal therapy. (Please note: I don’t intend any disrespect; I’ve been there and done that myself.) The goals of these … Continue reading
John Sandford (John Camp)
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I attended a book signing by John Sandford, a pseudonym used by John Camp, at Scottsdale’s Poisoned Pen Bookstore yesterday evening. I made some notes from the event. My apologies for any errors herein; they are my own. If I’ve … Continue reading
Story to Screenplay to Movie
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The movie “Arrival” (2016), in spite of its sometimes slow progress, has intrigued me for some time. After watching my BlueRay copy for the n’th time, I did some digging and came up with both the original story and also … Continue reading
Interactive Fiction with Twine
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Overview Twine is an editor and converter for IF, Interactive Fiction. Writers use it to create the kind that is text-based as opposed to animated. In this read-and-click variety, players read text provided by the author and choose from the … Continue reading
Where Stories Come From
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The seed begins in a crack. Its first root pushes downward. Finding soft soil, it extends, or discovering a rock, it goes around. The root forks and each tendril explores, diverts, reaches deeper, and forks again. Real life is like … Continue reading
Which Template?
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When a new idea gets my juices flowing, I want to write it down before it gets away. If I’m at my notebook computer, a new Scrivener project is ideal. I click File -> New Project and then… Damn! Scrivener … Continue reading
Labels, Labels, and Labels in Scrivener
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If it’s in the Binder, you can assign it a label, but only one label. That seems rather limiting, don’t you think? Well, yes and no. Let’s explore a little bit. Here’s the set of labels in one of my … Continue reading