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About ej runyonLocation: Halifax in my heart, the SW in November Home Region: Age:51 Favorite writers: Eve Babitz, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Eliz McCracken, Lynda Barry, Chris Moore, Lawerence Block, Donald E. Westlake Favorite music: anything loud Non-noveling interests: writng short stories, plays and flash fiction. Editing, coaching and Fiction Workshops |
Joined: Oktober 7, 2002 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 10 NaNoWriMo buddies: 6
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Synopsis: Tell Me <How-to Write> A Story
My non-novel this year is a how-to book for novices eager to write. I've written six novels here at nanowrimo, and now I'm putting all I've learned into a book that leads you through a 52-week guided tour for crafting the best fiction or memoir you have in you.
Excerpt: Tell Me <How-to Write> A Story
My work covers these topics so far:
The Novice Writer
Note about using your own work in this book:
What You’re In For
How to Look at Your Own Work
Bio into Fiction
Character Arc Tools–Worksheet & Map
Craft Basics – the Big Half Dozen & Some Little Stuff
How to Be More Sense-ative
The Pitfalls of Under or Overwriting
How to Show it, When to Tell it
Reader Feeder & Information Dumps
Lying, Stealing and Cheating
Opening with Intensity
A Dozen Ways to Start a Short Story
What to Write About?
Point Of View & Narration
Who Will Tell Your Story?
The Audience Factor
Thinking Before Writing
Words and Structuring
When Your Words Don't Fit
Hunt for Run-on Phrasing
From Fancy To Precise
Pronouns
Mixing Up What Is Doing and Done
The Last Verb Search
Character
The Visceral, the Physical, the Visual
Change in the Novel, Choice in the Short Story
The Main Question
Evoking vs. Reading
Making a Scene
Setting
Your Descriptive Voice
Dialog
Where Action Coveys a Thought
The Structure of Who, What, When, Where or How
Fixing a Clunky Sentence
Absolutely Poetic
Each lesson had examples and exercises.
More to come
ej runyon's Writing Buddies
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