Archive for August, 2007
#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 […]
#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 […]
Writing Fiction
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Writing for Readers, not Writers
Fiction writing seems to be something that everyone and his dog is engaged in these days. Firstly, about twenty-five years ago, the arrival of the word processor meant that anyone could two-finger type out a novel, print it and send it off to unsuspecting agents and publishers. Secondly, the establishment of […]
