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One: Write What You Know
There are stories inside us and even around us, dont let it go waste.
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There are stories inside us and even around us, dont let it go waste.
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One: Write What You Know
In my high school English class our borderline-highbrow teacher would feelingly repeat the above phrase after giving each assignment. "I am thoroughly tired," he would continue, "Of reading of spacemen and dragons and soldiers and knights who are baseless…
Two: Starting Out
How to plan and then begin writing..
Beginning your book is admittedly one of the most difficult parts about writing a lengthy piece. The best method to help spur the book along to fruition—that I have encountered as of yet-remains one of the most simple, conceptually: individual, successive chapter notes. While this concept may sound somewhat rudimentary it is invaluable as a writing tool, not only in starting the process with an informed ‘kick’ but it also aids the writer in keeping the plot on track (as far as where one wishes the story to go)... and lastly, it helps the writer remember to include all the important details and various tie-ins.
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How to plan and then begin writing..
Beginning your book is admittedly one of the most difficult parts about writing a lengthy piece. The best method to help spur the book along to fruition—that I have encountered as of yet-remains one of the most simple, conceptually: individual, successive chapter notes. While this concept may sound somewhat rudimentary it is invaluable as a writing tool, not only in starting the process with an informed ‘kick’ but it also aids the writer in keeping the plot on track (as far as where one wishes the story to go)... and lastly, it helps the writer remember to include all the important details and various tie-ins.
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Two: Starting Out
Making Your Sequential Chapter Notes: 1. Sit down. 2. Using either a blank notebook, computer word processing page, or a pad of ‘sticky’ notes, write the words “Chapter One”. 3. Under this title write out one-line details or phrases about what should be included…
Three: Characters 101
The Who!
Important considerations you must make to develop characters of your story.
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The Who!
Important considerations you must make to develop characters of your story.
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Three: Characters 10
The Who! Once you know what you wish to write about, how it will be laid out and from which perspective 'twill be penned, you need to focus on the WHO of the story: the characters, the Main Character(s) in particular. Here are some important things to consider…
Four: Writing Action
Not all books contain so much action but the things which happen to your characters act as a good stock does in a kitchen: it is the base of all main course recipes and the quality of it affects the flavor of the piece.
Some genres can only tolerate a little action, falling into the ‘enough is as good as a feast’ category. A few genres, however, like science fiction or adventure novels appear quite dead without a plethora of successive trials that the characters must endure. Then, there are the rare pieces which take a single bit of action and compile upon it, making it stretch out the entire length of the book, as in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
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Not all books contain so much action but the things which happen to your characters act as a good stock does in a kitchen: it is the base of all main course recipes and the quality of it affects the flavor of the piece.
Some genres can only tolerate a little action, falling into the ‘enough is as good as a feast’ category. A few genres, however, like science fiction or adventure novels appear quite dead without a plethora of successive trials that the characters must endure. Then, there are the rare pieces which take a single bit of action and compile upon it, making it stretch out the entire length of the book, as in Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea.
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Four: Action
Here are a few things to remember when planning out and writing your bit o’ action: 1. Tragedy is a part of life; if you choose to include it in your book, remember that Tragedy is just like salt; it should be used to enhance the story, not drown out the…
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Michale Wolff
An American author, essayist and journalist, has written Fire and Fury (just released in 2018 and had been in controversy), a book that portrays a chaotic initial year for the presidency of Donald Trump. What's his background?
Name: Michael Wolff
Age: 64
Early life: Wolff was born in New Jersey to a father who worked in advertising and a mother who was a newspaper reporter. He attended Columbia University in New York and worked as a copy boy at The New York Times while in school.
The journalist: Wolff published his first book of essays, White Kids, in 1979. He was most recently a media critic and columnist for USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine and, before that, Vanity Fair and Newser.
In 2011, he briefly was at the helm of AdWeek magazine, but left after less than a year.
The author: In 1997, he wrote the bestseller Burn Rate, about his early dotcom company Wolff New Media.
In 2004 he published Autumn of the Moguls, about the decline of mainstream media that would occur later in the decade.
He was perhaps best known for his 2009 biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News.
Accolades: Wolff has won two National Magazine Awards, which recognize excellence in the magazine industry in both print and digital mediums.
One of the awards was for a series of columns he wrote from the Middle East at the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Controversies: Wolff's work has often drawn criticism from his fellow journalists as well as his subjects. Just before the publication of The Man Who Owns the News, Murdoch took issue with several parts of the book, just as U.S. President Donald Trump has over Wolff's latest work.
In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, reporter Michelle Cottle characterized Wolff's writing by saying that "even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting is not his bag." Rather, she said, "he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially during those long lunches."
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An American author, essayist and journalist, has written Fire and Fury (just released in 2018 and had been in controversy), a book that portrays a chaotic initial year for the presidency of Donald Trump. What's his background?
Name: Michael Wolff
Age: 64
Early life: Wolff was born in New Jersey to a father who worked in advertising and a mother who was a newspaper reporter. He attended Columbia University in New York and worked as a copy boy at The New York Times while in school.
The journalist: Wolff published his first book of essays, White Kids, in 1979. He was most recently a media critic and columnist for USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, New York Magazine and, before that, Vanity Fair and Newser.
In 2011, he briefly was at the helm of AdWeek magazine, but left after less than a year.
The author: In 1997, he wrote the bestseller Burn Rate, about his early dotcom company Wolff New Media.
In 2004 he published Autumn of the Moguls, about the decline of mainstream media that would occur later in the decade.
He was perhaps best known for his 2009 biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News.
Accolades: Wolff has won two National Magazine Awards, which recognize excellence in the magazine industry in both print and digital mediums.
One of the awards was for a series of columns he wrote from the Middle East at the start of the Iraq War in 2003.
Controversies: Wolff's work has often drawn criticism from his fellow journalists as well as his subjects. Just before the publication of The Man Who Owns the News, Murdoch took issue with several parts of the book, just as U.S. President Donald Trump has over Wolff's latest work.
In a 2004 cover story for The New Republic, reporter Michelle Cottle characterized Wolff's writing by saying that "even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting is not his bag." Rather, she said, "he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially during those long lunches."
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Name: Bob Dylan wiki
Also Known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born: May 24, 1941 (Duluth, Minnesota, USA)
Bob Dylan has released thirty-eight studio albums, which collectively have sold over 120 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
Awards and Honors:
Noble Prize for Literature (2016) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Tarantula
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Asturias Prize (2007)
Grammy Award (2006)
Grammy Award (2001)
Kennedy Center Honors (1997)
Grammy Award (1997)
Grammy Award (1994)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
Grammy Award (1979)
Grammy Award (1972)
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Also Known as: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born: May 24, 1941 (Duluth, Minnesota, USA)
Bob Dylan has released thirty-eight studio albums, which collectively have sold over 120 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
Awards and Honors:
Noble Prize for Literature (2016) "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" Tarantula
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012)
Asturias Prize (2007)
Grammy Award (2006)
Grammy Award (2001)
Kennedy Center Honors (1997)
Grammy Award (1997)
Grammy Award (1994)
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
Grammy Award (1979)
Grammy Award (1972)
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Five: Show Me!
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It is an easy phrase to bat young writers over the head with… but WHAT IS showing verses telling? Janet Evanovich gave us a good single-sentence example: "It is the difference between actors acting out an event, and the lone playwright standing on a bare stage recounting the event to the audience."
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It is an easy phrase to bat young writers over the head with… but WHAT IS showing verses telling? Janet Evanovich gave us a good single-sentence example: "It is the difference between actors acting out an event, and the lone playwright standing on a bare stage recounting the event to the audience."
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Five: Show Me
Good fiction novels exist in a ‘Show Me’ state, as in the vastly repeated phrase: "show, don’t tell." It is a mantra that almost everyone's English teachers/profs eschewed often and then got all worked up about when this advice was flagrantly ignored in creative…
Name: Will Jelbert Website
Born: June 03, 1978 (Truro, The United Kingdom)
Jelbert has spent the last five years researching and writing about the psychology of happiness. His first book, 'The Happiness Animal' became a best seller and is internationally recognized as the first practical exercise guide to happiness. Jelbert is currently working on a new narrative of happiness '25 Days' to be released in April 2016, an alternative careers guide 'Jobs Verse' (release May 2016) and a children's book version of The Happiness Animal (release TBA).
Jelbert was born in Cornwall, the far South Western edge of the United Kingdom, and grew up on a fourth generation family farm two miles outside of Penzance. Jelbert's childhood was spent walking the cows in for milking after school, sorting through potatoes on the harvester, and driving the tractor packing rig while Jelbert's parents and grandparents cut cauliflower. Jelbert left the farm to study modern languages at the University of Exeter. After graduating, Jelbert was offered a job at Reuters translating French and German market information into English. Over the next ten years Jelbert worked in London, Geneva, and New York and took a year-long assignment to India in 2005 before relocating to Sydney in 2006.Jelbert became an Australian citizen in July 2010, but moved to the USA in 2013.
Born: June 03, 1978 (Truro, The United Kingdom)
Jelbert has spent the last five years researching and writing about the psychology of happiness. His first book, 'The Happiness Animal' became a best seller and is internationally recognized as the first practical exercise guide to happiness. Jelbert is currently working on a new narrative of happiness '25 Days' to be released in April 2016, an alternative careers guide 'Jobs Verse' (release May 2016) and a children's book version of The Happiness Animal (release TBA).
Jelbert was born in Cornwall, the far South Western edge of the United Kingdom, and grew up on a fourth generation family farm two miles outside of Penzance. Jelbert's childhood was spent walking the cows in for milking after school, sorting through potatoes on the harvester, and driving the tractor packing rig while Jelbert's parents and grandparents cut cauliflower. Jelbert left the farm to study modern languages at the University of Exeter. After graduating, Jelbert was offered a job at Reuters translating French and German market information into English. Over the next ten years Jelbert worked in London, Geneva, and New York and took a year-long assignment to India in 2005 before relocating to Sydney in 2006.Jelbert became an Australian citizen in July 2010, but moved to the USA in 2013.
Name: Ted Koppel wiki
Born: 8 Feb. 1940
A veteran of ABC News, was anchor and managing editor of Nightline from 1980 to 2005. New York University recently named Koppel one of the top 100 American journalists of the past 100 years. He has won every significant television award, including 8 George Foster Peabody Awards, 11 Overseas Press Club Awards (one more than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow), 12 duPont-Columbia Awards and 42 Emmys. Since 2005 he has served as managing editor of the Discovery Channel, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and continues to function as commentator and non-fiction book critic at NPR. He has been a contributing columnist to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal and is the author the New York Times bestseller Off Camera and Lights out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath.
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Born: 8 Feb. 1940
A veteran of ABC News, was anchor and managing editor of Nightline from 1980 to 2005. New York University recently named Koppel one of the top 100 American journalists of the past 100 years. He has won every significant television award, including 8 George Foster Peabody Awards, 11 Overseas Press Club Awards (one more than the previous record holder, Edward R. Murrow), 12 duPont-Columbia Awards and 42 Emmys. Since 2005 he has served as managing editor of the Discovery Channel, as a news analyst for BBC America, as a special correspondent for Rock Center, and continues to function as commentator and non-fiction book critic at NPR. He has been a contributing columnist to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal and is the author the New York Times bestseller Off Camera and Lights out: a cyberattack, a nation unprepared, surviving the aftermath.
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Six: to speak to Drawl no more..
Dialog Writing
Writing Dialogue is not just writing the conversation but must also intrigue, inform and move the story along. Read this 6th lesson under 10 tips for fiction writers.
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Dialog Writing
Writing Dialogue is not just writing the conversation but must also intrigue, inform and move the story along. Read this 6th lesson under 10 tips for fiction writers.
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Six: to Speak to Drawl no more..
Dialog must be good. As simple a thing as that phrase is to utter, or write, one cannot dismiss the importance of keeping your characters’ various speeches interesting. Readers can tell when a writer has simply thrown in some ‘lame’ lines of dialog into order…
Story to Poem
Write a poem based on a story that is already well known or well established. For example, how would Harry Potter seem if it was a poem? Or Star Wars? Or Your favorite show?
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Write a poem based on a story that is already well known or well established. For example, how would Harry Potter seem if it was a poem? Or Star Wars? Or Your favorite show?
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You’ve bought an old chest of drawers and discover a piece of paper stuck inside. What is written on that piece of paper?
Suggested brainstorming:
• Where did these drawers come from? How old are they exactly? Is there something special about them, e.g. a hidden compartment where the paper was discovered?
• Who put the paper there? When? Why?
• What does it say on it? Does it look old or new? How is it written? Is the handwriting elegant or disjointed?
• Is it a generic letter or an extract from a diary? Or is it addressed specifically to its discoverer?
• How does the main character respond to what is said on the paper?
You could keep going with brainstorming questions here. And as mentioned earlier, this is exactly what you want to get started with writing: to be metaphorically asked “what do you think about this?” You’re invited to answer these questions in your own unique way and write a story in response.
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Suggested brainstorming:
• Where did these drawers come from? How old are they exactly? Is there something special about them, e.g. a hidden compartment where the paper was discovered?
• Who put the paper there? When? Why?
• What does it say on it? Does it look old or new? How is it written? Is the handwriting elegant or disjointed?
• Is it a generic letter or an extract from a diary? Or is it addressed specifically to its discoverer?
• How does the main character respond to what is said on the paper?
You could keep going with brainstorming questions here. And as mentioned earlier, this is exactly what you want to get started with writing: to be metaphorically asked “what do you think about this?” You’re invited to answer these questions in your own unique way and write a story in response.
@WritersCafe story #prompt