Write On!
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Write On!: Get Graphic! Go Comic!
Are you drawn to drawing your own world? Do you picture rows of frames, imagine scenes, come up with your own cast of characters and play those scenes out in your mind? Is there, somewhere near, a messy pile of graphic novels or comic books that you have poured over a hundred times or more?… Continue reading
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Write On!: Writers Writing Life
You’ve read their work, admire their writing and anticipate reading their next book. Have you ever wondered, from whence did those words spring forth? Some readers are curious about the forces that give shape to a writer’s identity. They are intrigued about the circumstances that were foundational to the development of an author’s work. Continue reading
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Write On!: Publish Your Writing
Check! You did it, you’ve done the hardest part. You’ve taken an idea, a slither of an idea and honed it into a strong piece of writing. Now, you’re ready to send it out into the world. This brings you to another beginning. This beginning is just as crucial and just as important as completing… Continue reading
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Write On!: Get Moving, Write that Screenplay
Do you wonder How Hollywood Does It? Are you intrigued by all the moving parts that are part and parcel of getting a film on the screen? From where you sit, gazing up at the final cut, are you one of the few people in the audience who even knows the screenwriter’s name? Every film… Continue reading
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Write On! Crafting the Novel, Creating Imaginary Lives
Let’s start at the beginning, in that place From Where You Dream, at the first flash of a place, a line or a face. Start, precisely, there, Creating Characters as you continue to construct, in your mind, the Architecture of the Novel you will write. Ok, maybe, you have to start at that other beginning.… Continue reading
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Write On!: A Story Only You Can Tell, Writing a Memoir
Your Life is a Book. The very act of writing the story of your life whether for yourself, your family and friends or for any reading eye, is significant. Where to begin? How will you capture those Shimmering Images in words that evoke the feelings, the meaning and importance of long ago moments? How do… Continue reading
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Write On!: Nonfiction Writing Informs the World
Do you have an investigative mind? Is sussing out the “true story” something that intrigues you? Does researching a topic or an issue give you a thrill? How many times has someone said, “You should write about that!” If you have, ever, dashed off a letter to the editor, why did you stop there? Why… Continue reading
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Write on!: The Very Personal Journey of Keeping a Journal
You can travel any day at any time, circle back and revisit the past in the present or venture far into the future. Moments are remembered, ideas may be realized or not, a memory cherished, a day best left forgotten is there on the page and, now, you realize something you could not have understood,… Continue reading