Time This may be the hardest part about writing a novel – other than actually typing it out. Authors get this wrong a LOT. Time in novels must be “stretchy” simply due to the medium. As a counter example, movie scenes must run in real-time because we’re watching people do things – including talk toContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – V”
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Learning 2 Write – IV
Structure I’m talking about paragraphs, chapters, and books, not plot structure. At least paragraphs are straightforward: Nominal English paragraphs. I will cheerfully admit that I am not aware of the exact details and corner-cases of English paragraph structure. I do know that quote-source changes need new paragraphs. I also know that a paragraph should beContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – IV”
Learning 2 Write – III
Genre As an aside, I started numbering these, too, because it generates unique URLs that are under my control. Otherwise, they do get numbered, but it’s not my numbering scheme. There is no Roman Numeral for 0, so the Introduction must be I, which makes this III. There are two assumptions that must hold trueContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – III”
Learning 2 Write
Introduction I’ve had a good experience with the Learning 2 Bake from Scratch series. I’m considering a Learning 2 Write series. I had a space opera in mind, but writing out the timeline stretched it WAY into the future. I don’t really want to try to write about technology in the year 3000. There areContinue reading “Learning 2 Write”
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