smokingpen | November 18, 2008
J. Michael Straczynski wrote a book on writing screenplays titled, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, wherein he outlines how to outline writing for movies, television, plays, and more. I have actually found this method of outlining to be interesting in that you deal with a lot of plot and a little dialogue and you essentially [...]
smokingpen | January 3, 2008
Plotting a story is (possibly) one of the harder elements to coming up with the bones behind the idea of the story. Sure, coming up with the plot statement: a statement of less than twenty-five words that defines where the story is going.
However, one method used in teaching children how to write fiction is a [...]
smokingpen | January 3, 2008
Well, December 31st, 2007 came and went. I did not finish the 90,000 word goal. It got to a point where I knew, in advance, that I would not hit that number and yet, I didn’t bother about it. Things happen, minds change, and I realized that to get what I wanted I needed to [...]
smokingpen | October 6, 2007
When reading books on writing for movies, one of the many things that is suggested, and I think this goes for fiction as well, is the need to write an outline. We’re not talking about your run-of-the-mill elementary school outlines complete with numbers and letters and short descriptors. That’s lame, retarded, and meant for elementary [...]
