Category: Mini-Topic Chats

  • Point of View

    Point of View

    There are Points of View till hell won’t have them. And we are going to talk about a few of them. We have been discussing character building, settings, symbols and images. We discussed dialogue, subjects and subtexts. On Sunday we hit on Action.

  • Stage Setup by Many Other Names

    Stage Setup by Many Other Names

    You can present the setting in many ways, directly or through a character’s observation, or you may just blurt it out, tell. Telling has a place. Telling is especially useful when you are simply making a scene sketch.

  • What is a Scene?

    What is a Scene?

    Join us on October 23rd in the Chatroom for this Mini-Topic Chat

  • YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER

    YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER

    What do you keep in your character notes? Do your characters get their very own files? Do you interview them? How do you keep them alive? How do you come back to your keyboard for the duration of your short story or novel and keep them fresh and alive and full of surprises?

  • Character Creation

    Character Creation

    Let your characters develop on the pages of notebooks, sketch pads, character files in e-folders on your desk top computers or your cellphone. Just get it down, somewhere, or you’ll never know your characters well enough to take you to the end of the story.