Tag: tips for young writers

• Was I Sleeping 4 Times Through This Chapter?

  Revision work never seems to surprise and frustrate me. I have been doing some fairly significant re-writes on my next novel up, and each revised chapter had its moments in the grinding machine of my mind, polishing and burnishing each one a little closer to the end result. And then yesterday, I came across a…

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  January 10, 2017

  Uncategorized, Writing Process

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• Creative Anchors. How to choose a direction for your story.

  This is my term (as far as I know): Creative Anchor. I use that term to describe the first time an idea pops in my head which will “anchor” or force a story along. It’s a crucial creative idea which will make or break a chapter, sometimes even a story. Once you plop an anchor…

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  June 23, 2016

  Writing Process

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• Tips for Young Writers: Avoid Randomness

  The second full-length play I ever wrote was a collaborative piece with four high school students. We had developed a strong idea, and were fleshing out the details of the story. I was quite pleased with how it was going. And then one of the students got the idea to include a random duck walking…

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  September 22, 2015

  Writing Process

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