WordsmithSix writers critique group has been meeting together since 2009. We’ve said goodbye to a few members and gained a few. We have cranked out words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters which have been discussed, cussed, submitted, published and rejected. Writing is some of the hardest work ...
Accountability.There’s something to be said for sitting your butt in that chair and typing the words because you know there’s a group of people who will be reading it. The other option is you have to look them in the eye and say, “I didn’t bring anything to read this week, but...
1. Repetitive Telling Many common wordcraft problems fall under the old adage “show; don’t tell.” However, show/tell problems manifest in a variety of ways. In the case of repetitive telling, the writer is showing as appropriate, but then they waste words telling what they have just sh...
In the Rocky Mountains an off-duty cop rescues a little girl from a raging river moments before she utters her final words in his arms. Haunted by failure, he launches an investigation that leads him to a Montana school where time is ticking down on an event that will rewrite history.....
But the truth is that historical accuracy does not exist in fiction, nor can we know what the future would be like after a cataclysm. Everything in a fictional story has been manufactured by the storyteller, and accuracy is never a storyteller’s highest priority. How often do heroes throw...
the film. Her haunted, hardened presence brought a steely texture to the story missing from the rest of this weak retread. She was so good, that when I saw how quickly she disappeared (not to mention how the script got rid of her character) I might have spouted some unholy words my...
Before search tools and reviewers can do their jobs, the harvested data must be deciphered and reconstituted to be accessible and re-appear as the words we see when using e-mail clients and word processors. This is accomplished by, for example, • Opening password protected files • ...
Mitchell Cetuk The word “blu-nit” comes from the joining of the words “blue” (for the planet Business 13 Jun U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’ Liz Kimbrough United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration launched by U.N. Environment Progr Ai...
So many things about this class and your methods improved my writing. The reader response approach for feedback you suggest, where we tell the writer what feelings their words evoke in us along with questions that arise, provides a clear framework for critique. Your feedback on my writing not...
(www.site.flashfiction5.com). The site hosts a monthly contest where participants may submit a work of flash fiction, one hundred words or less, that must contain a specific list of words which are updated each month. It is completely free to enter and the two winning stories are posted...