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[rollingstoneart]

Stanley Kubrick by Steve Alcorn.

Rolling Stone | August 27th, 1987

[amerraka]

working on the structure of my story today.  to just get a skeleton of a direction, because I may erase it once I start writing and find something better--as happens when I am immersed with the characters, seeing from their eyes, seeing what is happening on the ground.  I can see the story better that way--not from a cold distance but almost as if I’m living it. But you need initial direction.  Also as INFP I need some structure to keep me from just flopping all over the place, so I at least see that the story needs to have something underlying it even if I overwrite it, which I will keep in mind as I am writing. There is a basic structure that most stories should have. 

if you have a hard time with structure--or wish to know more-- Steve Alcorn’s courses are very good. So is the book  plot vs. Character by Jeff Gerke. 

but there is only so much linear sort of stuff I can do before I need to get OUTSIDE THE BOX and create freely. things are too rigid, it suppresses my writing . So I have to find the balance there. 

it’s probably so hard for me to find the balance because I am an INFP but I am borderline J-- and this gives me all sorts of problems, not just with writing.  - probably mostly the floaty indecisiveness of the P though.  but I do have an inclination for some order-- in life anyway, I like to organize things. can’t stand things too messy but I am not like really particular about it being clean or especially straight either...

[knowledgeknut]

For all of you Novel Writers out there.......

I just got an e-mail from Steve Alcorn,

the gentleman whose writing course I purchased through Living Social.  Living Social is offering the course again at a fabulous price!  The cool thing about Udemy is that once you purchase a course, it doesn’t expire.  You can take it whenever you want.

So, here is the link:

https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/1363280-online-novel-writing-course?pos=0

Happy…

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[thewrittenmagic]

Writing big means letting your prose transcend mere words and turn into images in your readers' minds. Writing big is letting the rhythm of your words sing, like birds on a spring morning or a monks' choir at vespers. Writing big means never say bleed, say hemorrhage. Okay, I got a bit carried away there. Writing big is a complex combination of things, which must all come together to achieve the goal of transcendence. This means that your writing, as a whole, is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Steve Alcorn, Advanced Fiction Writing 

(See if your local library has an account with Ed2Go and you could get this class, and others, for free.)

[thedrc2]

"The Prettiest Girls In The Stands"

[thedrc2]

Moler Raceway Park Banquet :: 2013 :: Steve Alcorn