Pens and Pages Writer's Guild: Another site that might be helpful

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Another site that might be helpful

I ran across Daily Writing Tips today, and it has a lot of useful information, nuts and bolts stuff like grammar and punctuation, as well as tips on fiction writing and a lot of interesting idiosyncratic articles like "40 Yiddish Words You Should Know".

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Solard said...: Wow, Amanda -- I spent the better part of my evening clicking around that site... wonderful link, seriously!
~Solard; December 5, 2008 at 11:33 PM
Robin said...: Very interesting article Amanda! Thanks for sharing! I got purge the passive voice again but no meltdown! One of the recurring themes that I like is...turn off the internal editor and write, write, write. But do they have a webiste for edit, edit, edit?; December 10, 2008 at 8:59 PM

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Writing Exercises

Try this one about 'Showing vs. Telling', from the blog Novel Matters

Get a character in mind; this can be a character you are working on, from something you've read, or one you make up for this exercise.

As a prompt, the character must say, "I don't understand why you're arguing with me." Set up a scene in your mind in which your character says this to another character, then quickly write it down -- just get it down on paper. The goal is to just 'tell' the scene.

Now, imagine the same line of dialogue, only this time, the character is saying, "I don't understand why you're arguing with me," but what they really mean is, "I want you to love me."

Now, rewrite the scene with this subtext. According to the author of the referenced blog, subtext is a HUGE part of "showing, not telling."

Check out Novel Matters, if you get a chance -- lots of goodies there!

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