by Devi S. Laskar | Nov 13, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
My problem was that I wanted to put a sex scene in my murder mystery but didn’t know where to start. Clarissa (my protagonist) had to mention the murder on some level while being intimate with Hord, the investigating detective. So, there were two challenging goals:...
by Angie Powers | Nov 9, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
NaNoWriMo is underway. For those of you still chugging along – Congratulations! It’s a huge thing to do. It’s funny that we need an outside structure sometimes to make us do what we burn to do. Rather than bemoan the fact, I’m glad that there are so many...
by Devi S. Laskar | Nov 8, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Want a jump start a scene? Try pretending. Pretend you’re the character that you’re trying to write about, and pretend you’re about to go on stage to deliver your lines. What are your lines? Think of three sentences your character would say aloud, and then think of...
by Elizabeth | Nov 7, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
1) Start loose, just getting words on the page. How is it so easy to forget the magic of that act? How lively are our minds, our imaginations! We cannot shut them up. Stop and listen for a bit. (Try this with children, too–it works miracles against temper...
by Devi S. Laskar | Nov 6, 2012 | Daily Prompt, Featured, Uncategorized
Following Angie Powers’ simply marvelous exercise about shame & sketchy characters on Friday, I want to give a few minutes worth of attention to the notion of reporting. Reporting is not just for journalists and other writers of nonfiction. Reporting is a state of...
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