Tag: writing process

• Writing (for me) is a step by step commitment

  I’ve said it before that for me writing is more of a discovery process than anything else. Today, as I was thinking through a chapter I’m working on, I asked myself what I was committing to complete at this point. I realized that I am committed one hundred percent on the current chapter only, but…

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  June 20, 2013

  Writing Process

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• Decisions. Decisions. The Joy of Writing Time.

  I’ve said this a lot, and I’ll say it again. Writing is all about making decisions. Good writing is about making the right decisions. I’ve been faced with a lot of decisions these last few days as part two of novel three takes shape.  It’s been so much fun to see where the writing will…

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  June 14, 2013

  Writing Process

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• Re-thinking the way I write

  After lamenting in the blog the loss of over a 1000 words earlier this week, I finally went at it to recreate once again what I had already created once. Well, the effort has well paid off. I buzzed pass the threshold easily in such a way that I wonder if I should always throw…

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  June 8, 2013

  Writing Process

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• Nothing as Bleak as a Writer’s Confidence

  I just finished a short 1500 word dramatic sketch entitled “‘No’ in Spite of Itself”. Now I can’t seem to shake those mixed feelings I have about it. For a while, I had my doubts how effective it was going to be. It’s about a man, standing on the edge of a cliff, having a…

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  June 5, 2013

  Uncategorized, Writing Process

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• Can we identify a real person’s ‘superobjective’ by how they actually behave in real life?

  As I think about writing and character development and human behavior and a ton of other things, I keep going back to the fascinating world of the superobjective. A superobjective is what acting coach Larry Moss calls the overarching goal or desire of a character’s existence.  Whether acting or writing, keeping the superobjective in mind…

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  June 4, 2013

  Writing Process

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• The Two Lives of a Book

  When writing a novel, I get so caught up in my characters and the plot-line, that it takes on a life of its own. It becomes a little part of me, a part that I cherish and grow to like and mold day by day as I write. Part of what I love is the…

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  May 28, 2013

  Uncategorized, Writing Process

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• Discipline + Imagination + Bravery = ?

  Here’s another connection between acting and writing. I found this equation in one of my drama books: Discipline + Imagination + Bravery = Success! I couldn’t have said it better for either acting or writing. Let’s break this down a little bit: DISCIPLINE An actor has to be disciplined in putting in the homework to…

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  May 14, 2013

  drama, Writing Process

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• Writers, we control so little

  I had to laugh. I got my first one-star review the other day. It’s not really funny, though it kind of is. I’ll explain in a minute. I’ve been writing for a number of years, but I have only recently – how shall I put it? – ‘gotten into the game.’  What game? The game…

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  March 13, 2013

  Writing Process

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• Writers have no room for pride

  Just when I think it’s good, well… Case in point. I’m in the final lap of writing my thesis, and after my last revisions I was feeling pretty good about where it was – confident that I was nearly finished, and hopeful that I would have very few revisions yet to come. The Committee reviewed…

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  March 9, 2013

  Writing Process

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• Drama & Writing: What’s your superobjective?

  This is part two in an occasional series on the connection between drama and writing. Today’s topic: superobjective. When taking apart a scene, there are certain specific items that any actor has to ask him or herself. First, what is the scene objective? What do I have to accomplish in the scene? The motive? Next,…

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  March 3, 2013

  Writing Process

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