Activity for Jack M
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #27552 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #13878 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #7734 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |
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A: What are the limits to description in story writing? How do I know if I have crossed them? All writing is description. It's just a matter of what you're describing. So it's impossible to describe things too much, or to be writing descriptive prose when you should be writing some other kind of prose. With "purple prose", the issue as I see it is either describing the wrong thing, or describ... (more) |
— | over 6 years ago |
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How do I get from the plot outline to an scene-for-scene summary? My first milestone in writing a story is to have a complete, start to finish description of the sequence of events and character actions that comprises the story. However, this isn't enough to get started writing, because a scene is more than a story event: a scene is an event and a point of view. Wh... (more) |
— | over 9 years ago |
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What do you do if you enjoy writing, but have no ideas? I've done some writing in the past - mostly short descriptive pieces, although I once wrote 9000+ words of a story idea I had. What I enjoy about it are the technical, intellectual, creative challenges involved in every level from the sentence to the plot arc. I am analytically minded: I enjoy ident... (more) |
— | over 11 years ago |