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- Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SUSPENSE
- Replies: 57
- Views: 68327
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:33 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SUSPENSE
- Replies: 57
- Views: 68327
I don’t know why people can’t look at my post. I will only state the most obvious question for each work. I will leave the more sophisticated questions to others. 1. The Lord of the Rings: I wonder how much shorter this will be in the Readers Digest version? 2. Charlotte’s Web: Is the runt of the li...
- Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:02 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SURPRISE
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49943
- Sun Mar 08, 2009 7:45 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SURPRISE
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49943
OK. Now that hinting time has come, I want to see what you all think about my attempt at Surprise that I said I was working on for Asia. The Hint is: Advanced, near the bottom, immediately below someone else's entry that has a one word title. Based on the 3 comments I received prior to posting this ...
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:41 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SURPRISE
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49943
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:05 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SURPRISE
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49943
NO! :lol: I don't consider myself too subtle a writer! Funny you should ask. I am working on an in-your-face surprise ending for my Asia entry, but I'm not sure I can make it work, so I may have to settle for a twist or a surprise-ish ending. But I don't really think there is a bright line between t...
- Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:58 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SURPRISE
- Replies: 41
- Views: 49943
I’m not sure I have any really good examples. The first one, Across the Years, is surprise-ish, but probably does not have a surprise per se: http://faithwriters.com/wc-article-level1-previous.php?id=26783 . That’s actually what I was going for—surprise-ish. The second one, The Difference, definitel...
- Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43913
Steve, you've flummoxed me. I've never thought of a monologue or stream-of-consciousness in third person before. I'm still thinking about it. My suspicion is that it's not really a monologue...but I don't know if there's a name for it. Whatever it is, it has an interesting effect on the reader. It'...
- Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:45 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43913
Since I don’t have anything to link to, I’ll cheat on the homework. This blurb was not written for this class. It’s from my unpublished novel. It is an example of third person POV internal/interior monologue (with a little context). Note that with third person POV, you can interrupt and add a note f...
- Thu Feb 05, 2009 7:01 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winning Entries for "United Kingdom"
- Replies: 24
- Views: 20002
- Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:18 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--SETTING
- Replies: 26
- Views: 47084
Ok, this is really weird, I went to the dice rolling website and got remarkably similar results to Carol, although I don’t know whether you used a real die or not. Carol, I guess you got toddler, writer, in a busy city, 1950’s, a kitten. I got toddler, writer, in a small house, 1950’s, a kitten. So ...
- Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:09 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winning Entries for USA
- Replies: 29
- Views: 24155
Gotta give a special shout-out to Sonya Leigh, very new to the Challenge and already making a huge impression, and to Steve Fritchen, tops in Beginners in only his 2nd (I think) entry. Way to go, new people! Thanks, Jan. In the interest of full disclosure (there's the lawyer again), in addition to ...
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 7:23 pm
- Forum: Page Turner Writing Contest
- Topic: 2009 Page Turner Contest is Online Now
- Replies: 42
- Views: 41327
Thanks.
I didn't see the info at this link: http://www.faithwriters.com/page-turner.php
Is there another link I should look at for more info?
Also, is there an upper limit?
Thanks.
I didn't see the info at this link: http://www.faithwriters.com/page-turner.php
Is there another link I should look at for more info?
Also, is there an upper limit?
Thanks.
- Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:23 pm
- Forum: Page Turner Writing Contest
- Topic: 2009 Page Turner Contest is Online Now
- Replies: 42
- Views: 41327
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:40 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Master Class--REPETITION
- Replies: 38
- Views: 48569
Well, I can’t re-create everything I wrote last time for the post that went into the black hole. I’m getting ready for a 5-day road trip. I will just REPEAT what I said last time about my use of repetition in non-fiction, which use also has some application in fiction. I use repetition to avoid the ...