by Angie Powers | Jan 23, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
In the Book Writing World, Elizabeth has discussed time and again the “big” ingredients it takes to write a complete narrative/story/book/memoir. Sometimes it can help to put the main ingredients into a single sentence, a sort of pithy recipe. This is different from a...
by Angie Powers | Jan 20, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
As writers, we sometimes struggle with creating “an inner life” or a range of emotions for our central characters. In an effort to have stories that reflect realistic people with actual problems, we as writers could inflict our obligations and inconveniences on our...
by Angie Powers | Jan 19, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
In the Book Writing World, we have learned this about story structure: “The CRISIS is when the choice is made and the CLIMAX is when the choice is acted on.” That sounds good. Now, to the difficult question: What are your chracter’s choices? What happens after your...
by Angie Powers | Jan 18, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Every writer has voices inside his or head, angels counseling us what to write, what details to include, what generalities to omit. Most of us don’t actually hear these voices…but we aware of them as we grapple with character and plot development, and try to finish...
by Angie Powers | Jan 17, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Our “job” as writers is to describe, describe, describe. This means that we as writers have to take what we are imagining and place it on the written page – share it with our readers. Sounds easy enough. But writing is hard and often we leave out something that could...
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