Category: Sunday Chats

  • Inspiration or Determination?

    Inspiration or Determination?

    Visit with us and share some of the things you do to keep yourself from putting your project on the back shelf.

  • ACTION

    ACTION

    Sunday’s topic is Action. We’ve talked about scene set ups and dialogue. Action can be huge or it could be one more pebble in the hiker’s shoe. For every action there is a reaction, even if the reader doesn’t see it. Reaction may pile up.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • Props in Fiction Writing

    We are all know if a movie shows a rifle over a fireplace in the opening scene – the item has to be used in the cathartic scene.