Tag: writing
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Theo and Sprout Excerpt for Kentucky Derby Day
I STEPPED through the looking glass when I mowed the lawn. I used to like mowing the grass. I know, an odd concept for a teenager. I liked to mow the lawn because I entered a separate world, alone. Alone literally or alone in the loud roar the mower created, a zone of aloneness around…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Method Writing
Spill your guts. Let it all out. That’s what my first person characters usually do. They don’t hold back. They seem to think they are in therapy and the page is the confessor. Which I am all for. That’s why they are here. But in shifting to third person that might not be so good.…
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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 — Jerry Springer Method
For my 3rd person project I’ve decided to do some outlining. Obviously not a practice confined to the 3rd person but something I’ve never really done before except maybe at a super high level, or maybe after the third draft when shit isn’t making any sense. But it’s new to me, so we’ll bundle it…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Structure or Chaos
I suppose a story about memory will by its nature want to jump around in time. Even in the 1st person you can flashback to times the protagonist can remember. So I suppose in the 3rd person it just becomes more complicated. Multiple characters can go back into memory, and the narrator can go wherever…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Therapy
Initiating my thoughts today was the question around how much can or should I know about the main characters when writing in the third person. When writing in the 1st person, I can have the main character know a great deal about themselves, however biased and subjective that might be. But their knowledge of the…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Shifting Perspective
Oh, the places we will go. That was my big epiphany this morning in pondering the 3rd person narrative style vs. the 1st person narrative style. The ability to go places a first person narrator could not go, or at least could not go without a great deal of machination. I suspect my fascination on…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – The Plot Thickens
The plot thickens or at least expands for the new 3rd person adventure. It even has a working title, if only for the sole purpose of making it easier to reference. “The Shoe Ghost” seems like a good name as any for a story about memory. In fact since I am a terrible typist and…
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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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