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Items on the Craft of Writing
A folder for books and items about writing
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Since I have a few items on writing, I decided to bunch them together in one folder. Some of the articles contain the same information published in WdC's Drama Newsletter and other newsletters I have written.


A Caveat:
Any writing advice (in the articles here or elsewhere) is most useful when the article or the how-to books are read and understood and then not really paid much attention during the initial creation of a piece.
Too much of how-to has a way of crimping one's style and destroying freshness and originality.
During the revisions, however, all advice may be taken into consideration.
The idea is, if one knows what to do in the back of his or her mind, that knowledge will be a guide without consciously interfering with the story during the first draft.


Portfolio -> Items on the Craft of Writing

Pre-writing  [13+]   4.9 KB
Pre-writing, not to be confused with research, is being ready for serious work.

Epiphany or the Truth Grasped  [13+]   6.1 KB
Epiphany in fiction gives the story its profound literary quality.

Deep-Writing or Moral Argument  [13+]   4.2 KB
Finding the depth in one's writing

Fiction: Common Story Mistakes  [E]   5.1 KB
Revising and rewriting are the most important parts of writing.

Pacing  [13+]   4.6 KB
Pacing is manipulating the storytime to give the story its flow.

Fiction: Exercises in Various Beginnings  [18+]   8.8 KB
Exercises in fictional beginnings

Creating Motion in Fiction  [13+]   3.0 KB
How to apply show don't tell principle and adjust the pace of the story

Weaknesses Strengthen the Story  [13+]   5.3 KB
Looking into a few weaknesses for character drawing and dimensionality

Fiction Writing: Scenes are Important  [13+]   4.5 KB
Types of scenes in fiction

An Exercise: Endings in Fiction  [ASR]   4.0 KB
Illustrating the several types of endings in stories

A Tool in Storytelling: Dramatic Irony  [13+]   4.8 KB
Dramatic irony is a powerful literary tool any writer would like to use.

In Creating Characters Empathy is Key  [E]   3.7 KB
The writer's empathy for his character will ensure readers' attention.

Antagonist in Fiction: He Is Powerful  [13+]   4.1 KB
Drawing the character of the antagonist

Use of Characters in Dramatic Scenes  [ASR]   3.5 KB
Dramatic scenes: the conflict and the characters in them

Food in Writing  [13+]   5.2 KB
Using food in our stories and poems adds a special zest to their enjoyment.

Where There Is a Metaphor  [13+]   3.7 KB
My take on metaphors

Substance of the Story: Fiction Writing  [13+]   5.9 KB
Fiction writers might learn the construction of a story from the screen writers.

Fiction: Writing the Synopsis  [E]   3.6 KB
A synopsis tells an editor what the book is about and if its progression is reasonable.

Fiction: Easing Exposition into a Story  [ASR]   4.3 KB
Blending descriptive material into a story

Poetry Terms  [ASR]   40 Questions
How well do you know the poetic language? Test yourself with 10 questions at each try.

Poetry Forms  [ASR]   10 Questions
Tip the scales with your recognition of poetry forms

Shakespeare --How Well Do You Remember?  [E]   8 Questions
Test your memory of Shakespeare's plays

Poetry Is Everywhere  [13+]   3.8 KB
There is poetry in everything if we look carefully.

Mid-Novel Blues  [E]   3.1 KB
A few suggestions to continue writing the novel, if you get stumped at midpoint .

Odd Facts and Trivia for Writers  [13+]   5.7 KB
Odd facts and trivia to keep in mind when we write our stories

Concrete Nouns List  [ASR]   16.5 KB
Description for concrete nouns and a partial list