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- Пт, 20:37: RT @donttrythis: "Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts". Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Wed, 16:53: One of my all time favorite authors, Anne McCaffrey, had died. Her gifts to us will live forever in her books.
- Сб, 21:37: @livehewlett brrrr just doesn't cover that kind of cold!
- Сб, 21:38: @livehewlett Rescue team just got to the camp. ewww what did he fall back on?
- Wed, 23:06: Just won an iPad in a drawing at a conference. No idea what I'm doing,
- Wed, 17:41: RT @randomhouse: Random House will donate $1 to @RoomtoRead for every retweet. bit.ly/mVn7iU #RTforLiteracy
To me one of the hardest things for a fiction writer to do is to write dialogue. As the reader reads, the written conversation should flow as if she/he is listening to a spoken conversation. The conversation should be believable. The conversation should not be overflowing with adjectives, invectives, or accents. The reader should not have to stop and think—who said what, to whom, about what. Nor should the reader have say “wait whose hand smacked whose head?”
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- Mood:
calm
Once again I question my sanity for attempting a masters program while working full-time. I just got the syllabus for one of my two fall classes and let's just say that I probably will not be posting much or often until mid December. This class is "Teaching College Composition" and it promises to be one of the toughest classes I've ever taken in my life.
The class has tons of reading, tons of writing, and at least one team project, not to mention the dreaded speak in front of the class reports. Did I mention that the papers have to be academic journal worthy?
- Mood:
anxious
So, I'm working on a Master's Degree in Occupational and Technical Studies with a specialization in Community College Teaching. As part of the program I have to write a research paper. I have until the Spring 2012 semester to find a topic and I just might find one by then.
But, if anyone besides me ever reads this journal and you have any ideas about topics for such a thing feel free to chime in!
- Mood: optimistic
These terms are used constantly and throughout fan fiction. I've seen many, many discussions about the meanings as applied to fan fiction, so here is my take on it.
- Mood:
contemplative
Presumably if you are reading this you either are or want to be a fan fiction writer. So, how do you become a writer? Many people think that just putting words on paper or a computer screen makes them a writer; if only it was that easy!
A writer’s main purpose is to tell a story. The story needs to be well constructed; with a clear beginning, middle and end. If you cannot capture the reader’s interest in the first two or three sentences you missed.
How do you become a writer?
How do you become a writer?
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- Mood: satisfied
