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Class Notes – Week One
As I said in class, I’ll be posting notes after each Wednesday session, which all three classes can use to ask questions about or comment on what we covered. I encourage the students to hop into the discussion here, but … Continue reading
Posted in online fiction, teaching, Writing
Tagged carol emshwiller, joe hill, kurt vonnegut, online workshop
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3 Things That End A Story Well
1. Circularity is a big help. It provides a sense that the reader has returned to the beginning, but now everything is changed. Here’s a cheat – take something that appears in your first three paragraphs and invoke it in your last three as well. It can be changed – the rose that initially trembled, dew-covered, as our heroine picked it is now lying withered and flat in the road. Or it is a new rose, being picked by another woman who is the replacement for the first? Continue reading
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Tagged carol emshwiller, circularity, ebooks, joe hill, kindle, pat cadigan, story endings, writing
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5 Things To Do In Your First 3 Paragraphs
Display your command of language. It’s worthwhile for a writer to think about poetry, and all its devices like assonance and alliteration, metaphor and allusion, internal rhythm, even meter. Save scraps of speech that you like, stud those paragraphs with wonderful things and spend with wild abandon from your store, because this is the make or break moment, when your reader decides whether or not to continue. You cannot lavish enough attention on your reader in the form of these paragraphs. Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, book lists, carol emshwiller, james tiptree jr, kelly link, kindle, paragraphs, reading, teaching, thomas m. disch, writing, writing exercises
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