Tag: art
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Motivation
Grappling with motivations. Not my own. My characters’. When writing in the 1st person the narrators knows their motivations and their intentions. But the narrator can only observe the behaviors of other characters, can only surmise at their motivations and intentions. And I as the writer have to pretend that I don’t know either, only…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Watercolors and Oils
I suppose it seems odd to go on about writing in the 3rd person as some sort of apocalyptic undertaking, but if I didn’t make it so melodramatic it would be ungodly boring, or even more ungodly boring. So I was thinking it was maybe easier to explain in a more concrete art form example.…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – The Seed and The Way
In my conversation about wanting to write in the 3rd person I’ve mentioned a plot theme (I’m sure there are more technical terms for this but I have no idea what they are). So to keep on talking about the journey and not sound all vague and elusive about the plot theme, I should at…
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To Thy Own Self Be True
I came across some Tweets the other day on writing that had two themes. One was why do you write and who do you write for, and quite a lots of others focused on how one might write. The why question led me in the direction of motivation. Because I couldn’t really answer the question…
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