Fiction Every Bit as Appealing as Protose
Early in my fictional career as a literary writer, I established milestones that would build my confidence on my way to publishing success.
The first milestone: profoundly impact at least one person with …
Tag: plot
I am not a monkey
Illiterary fiction excels at showing, showing with a profundity of adverbs and exceptional adjectives. Dictionary inspired descriptions that convey the most erudite worlds. With copious plot twists, illiterary fiction is surprisingly uninspiring.
Her face, bilious …
Look into the Abyss
I had a dream that SOPA would pass and the freedom to regulate would prevail.
I had a dream that my two grown children, living in my basement and the spare bedroom, would one day surf …
Die technik des sandwich-making dramas
Like all great American novels, this novel will have numerous subplots, illustrated by the plot-lines diagram, including five thousand words devoted to a sandwich-making subplot in which a sandwich is systematically assembled and unassembled multiple times until …
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12.09.11 , In
Fiction Across the Multiverse, Notes on my Novel in Progress, Plot Lines , by
Unpublished Guy
Moments that grip, surprise, twist, amuse, frighten, and seduce have no business in fiction. The unpublishable writer must consider half-baked, haphazard moments. The story won’t elevate to the level of unreadable unless it’s stuffed full of these moments.
- The moment
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Ran across a web site, terrible minds, that has a cool logo and a weekly fiction contest that is really a clever way to build links to his site for search engine optimization. So I went ahead and wrote some …
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07.08.11 , In
The Crap Bucket , by
Unpublished Guy
Pirates of the Caribbean Priest-Mermaid Love Subplot
Quite often when I am watching a movie and sometimes when I am reading a book, I find I am more interested in a side story or supporting character than I am in …
The Tragic Story of Silas the Monk
The DaVinci Codes tells the tragic story of Silas, a monk of Opus Dei, and his effort to sustain his faith in a world that hates albinos. In the beginning of the story, …
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07.31.10 , In
Plot Lines , by
Unpublished Guy
Do you think that the common plots are Comedy and Tragedy?
Think again.
All sorts of list exist that talk about the number of universal plots. One list had 36, which seemed awfully high for universal plots. Seven seems to …
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07.17.10 , In
Plot Lines , by
Unpublished Guy
The fourth of July and four days into July Novel Writing Month. Four days of staring at a blank page wondering what font I should be using to write my novel. I settled on Verdana. I prefer sans serif, but …
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07.04.09 , In
The Crap Bucket , by
Unpublished Guy
