Archive for November, 2007
Resources for scenes
There are two great resources for scenes:
Bickham, Jack M. Scene and Structure. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1999
A very structured approach to plotting that is interesting to read once, but not necessarily to practice because it is SO structured. However, he has a fascinating “Scenic Master Plot” in the appendix that helped me understand the flow [...]
Scene Box Text
In the Hawaii workshops, we spent a lot of time talking about scenes.
First what is a scene?
Well, writers kinda stumble around on definitions like this. We sorta know what it is when we see it. But how do we put it into words?
(An aside: I find it frustrating that we don’t have [...]
Aloha
Aloha!
On November 2-3, I taught a novel workshop and a picturebook workshop for the Hawaii SCBWI, where I met some great writers. It was an exciting two days of nouns, verbs, sensory details, thumbnails, plot, pacing and fun.
Then, my husband joined me for a week holiday. We stayed on the lovely Moloa’a Beach, [...]
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