We’ve been looking at motivation in Craft Class, and one thing that is evident is that motivation is expressed in action. We all know this. We do not believe what people proclaim, we believe what they do. Self-analysis goes only so far, and the more it goes on, the less we rely on what we […]
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Why Rejection is a Critical Part of Success Get ready, because I’m going to quote–well, misquote–Tony Robbins right upfront. This is something we writers need to hear. Tony Robbins says in some multi-tape course that Angie has from years and years ago, that people who hold back their work, do not submit, revise endlessly, never
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What drives your character? Story involves characters who have some motivation, something that moves them forward. Desire, wish, need, problem and the motivation to seek a solution. This can’t simply be announced: we wouldn’t believe it. It has to be felt and enacted. Motivation is the agent of change, and change is the key to
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These days, we spend our impulse to communicate quickly. It comes upon us and we can hop over to that rectangular box on Facebook and post that thought, pin up the photograph, forward the quote. The impulse dissipates, or we wait for the “likes,” the comments, we scroll through and make our own. It’s delicious,
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All of us need structure and inspiration, from the most well-published, best-selling, award winning authors to the hopeful who barely dares to set pen to page. We do not write in a vacuum. We write as readers inspired by what we love, as thinkers grappling with ideas, as human beings entangled in stories, entangled in
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Summertime. No childcare (in the form of school). We did three weeks of camp and now those are over. Mostly, the kids are around, reading, playing, fighting, bored, or on adventures with us—whether that’s playing ball in the field down the road or taking a road trip across the state. There’s a measure of chaos
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pictures of Dora Diamant The wonderful author and human being Harriet Chessman tagged me in a blog hop. What is a blog hop? A series of questions are posed to an author, who answers them about a work-in-progress or a published work. The answerer then tags a few more writers, and the
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1) Who is the main character? 2) Who is the secondary character? 3) What is the deepest conflict or suffering between these two? 4) What concrete event could happen to bring out that deepest conflict or problem? 5) What are some surface conflicts that are also real (matter) between these two?
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