Thursday Detour:It’s the week before Christmas and I’m tucked under the covers in my hotel room for the week. This afternoon, it’s time for a break from class to absorb. I feel like I’ve been living out of my suitcase for the past few months but traveling has it’s benefits. Sometimes, I travel to getContinue reading “Thursday Detours”
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Day #15 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet
Day #15 MasterClass Online – Narration and Exposition “What can you do without, not what can you put in.” David Mamet Lesson number 15 with David Mamet went over Narration and Exposition. This lesson was to the point and without fillers, just like his take on story telling. His main point was to write asContinue reading “Day #15 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet”
Day #10 MasterClass Online with David Mamet
Masterclass.com course: Dramatic Writing with David Mamet Day 10 Lesson #10 Structuring Plot Continued: After listening to lesson 10 with David Mamet, I found myself a little disconnected from the examples that related to a 3 act structure of a play. He used the example of a knife and the three different ways we use an object forContinue reading “Day #10 MasterClass Online with David Mamet”
Day #9 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet
Masterclass.com course: Dramatic Writing with David Mamet Day 9 Lesson #9 Structuring Plot: Every writer has their own way of structuring plot. Some of us use post-it notes that can be rearranged. Others use outlines or index cards. Plotting the journey of our main character’s story is part of our process. To David Mamet’s point, we share theContinue reading “Day #9 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet”
Day #6 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet
Masterclass.com course: Dramatic Writing with David Mamet Day 6 Lesson #6 Story Ideas: Lesson number 4 and 5 with David Mamet covered his Dramatic Rules asked an important question. Is my introduction starting at the right point? Am I building the right kind of action? Don’t make your audience wait to get to a destination. As aContinue reading “Day #6 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet”
Day 5 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet
Masterclass.com course: Dramatic Writing with David Mamet Day 5 Using Advice from Lesson 4: My fingers resist hitting the dreaded delete button. It’s the enemy of all writers. Today is a painful day of cuts in order to keep my story simple, with the right progression. My audience will feel sidetracked and delayed and that’s not theContinue reading “Day 5 of MasterClass Online with David Mamet”
Day #24 of NaNoWriMo
Day #24 of NaNoWriMo – German Fairy Tales I was on the road again today and listening to a new book about shifters. This was more mild in content that some Adult books but it was part of my research on other authors who write about the same genre. The gears in my mind startedContinue reading “Day #24 of NaNoWriMo”
Day #13 of NaNoWriMo
Day #13 of NaNoWriMo – Home Again Snow covers the ground again in the cities of Minnesota and I returned home. I didn’t post my daily numbers but I did write every day even though I was tired and doing other work. I’m making progress on my novel. I did return to the firstContinue reading “Day #13 of NaNoWriMo”
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