Archive for the 'Prepare Your Writing' Category
#2 Story Structure - The Journey Without and Within
Monday, August 13th, 2007Writing a Structured Story
I remember one of my good friends approaching me after completing a story - the first of his that went on to get published - and saying, in a state of awe and wonder, ‘Structure is everything.’ He had a point. It was certainly addressing structure that had changed his writing from […]
#3 Facing up to Conflict
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007#3 Facing up to Conflict.
In Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Fight Club’, Tyler Durden gives his followers a special task to fulfill before they meet again: to pick a fight with someone in the ‘real world.’ As they find out, most people will go to any lengths to avoid being embroiled in a conflict. In fact […]
#4 Enter Deus Ex Machina; Exit Reader
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Enter Deus Ex Machina; Exit Reader
Ben Elton was being steered away from committing the crime of ‘Deus Ex Machina’ by a master of plot-writing. ‘Deus Ex Machina,’ translated literally as “god out of a machine,” is an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event which drops into the story from nowhere. Its sole […]
