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Writer's Write Blog Open Yourself Up to the Possibilities of Story The author talks about how one prompt can be the basis for a million different stories Girl gets on a bus... And the story could be about a bomb, Rosa Parks, etc.  “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” ―  Lorrie Moore As an aspiring author, this short article was inspiring and a great reminder that all a story needs to be great is creativity and someone to chase down the prompt Harnessing the Power of Time in Your Storytelling The author uses an (annoyingly long) run-on sentence to describe his interpretation of time (capital T).  Time is powerful because it is relevant Article brings u an interesting idea that words, themselves, are time “The novel is time’s child. The novelist can never do otherwise than work with time, and nothing in his novel can escape it,” writes  Eudora Welty  in her...

For this week's story lab, I created a twine. The purpose of the Twine is to answer buzzfeed-esque questions to determine what kind of Fall soup you are. Obviously, the answers are really sarcastic. I though Twine was not that user friendly and it wouldn't let me save the file. However, it was still fun to create. Twine: Find Out What Fall Soup You Are Fall Soup

For this week's story lab I explored the blog, Advice to Writers. The homepage opens to a quote from TS Eliot. Immediately intrigued, I know I am going to like this blog. The quote is actually a joke and I'm left feeling disappointed. I decide to jump to an quote entitled, "Writing is Hard Work, Not Magic." This quote is attributed to Suze Orman and is about defining the motivation behind why you are writing. I like that. Someday I want to be an author. Before I write my novel, whatever it will be about, I need to decide the message and meaning behind the intent of the book. Neil Postman poses the question, "What Could Be Stranger than Writing?" Anthropologists call literary works a conversation that is both simultaneously held with no one and with everyone. I think that that is very poetic. "Words Are to Be Taken Seriously," declares a quote in large red type. Toni Cade Bambara explains that words set things in motion and conjure images and ...

Why We Ask You to Buy us a Coffee “You really need to learn to accept a gift with grace,” he said. “A gift doesn’t come with any conditions or an implied reciprocation.” Create Power Paragraphs for Stronger Storytelling Sentence Spotlight " The  dominant   sentence  is the first and most important in any paragraph" " The  flow sentences  tease out the adventure promised by the dominant sentence" " The  linking sentence  ends a paragraph" "The  call-out sentence  is paragraph in its own right." 10 Things William Faulkner Had to Say About Writing I'm a big William Faulkner fan. As I Lay Dying is one of may favorite books. I've copied a few  distinct phrases from his list of 10. I found them to be inspiring.  The act of writing shows movement, activity, life. I think it best to use as little dialect as possible because it confuses people who are not familiar with it. That nobody should let the c...