Category: Fiction

Pixar Story Rules

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The moving truck that has all of our personal belongings (i.e. all of my books) is still somewhere between here and the Ozarks. So while I intended to write this week’s Fiction Friday about writing scenes—a topic I definitely struggle with—that’s not going to happen until next week.

So, again, in lieu of a post, I’ll share with you a great site and resource for writers. This blog post is a compilation of tweets by Pixar story artist Emma Coats. She shares, in 140 characters or fewer, more than 20 story writing ideas and tools. Here’s one:

#11: Putting it on paper lets you start fixing it. If it stays in your head, a perfect idea, you’ll never share it with anyone.

Check it out, try some of the writing exercises. HOPEFULLY our moving truck will be here on Monday, so I can get you a legitimate blog post on setting.

Adieu for now!

As luck would have it…

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…I’m holding a miserable, feverish toddler in my arms who very well may have 1) another ear infection or 2) strep throat. Difficult to diagnose when one is dealing with a mute toddler (mute except for the pitiful whining, that is. Poor baby!)

But I keep good on my word and don’t want to leave you with nothing, so I’m going to direct you to my review of Heat Wave by “Richard Castle” and ask you this:

Have you ever learned a valuable lesson in how not to write while reading? What was the lesson?

I look forward to your answers while I nurse my sick baby back to health.

LET THERE BE INTERNET

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I’m back! We finally have internet in our new home, so I am ready to get back into the saddle of blogging. But right now it’s dinner time, so I’m going to have to post tomorrow or Friday.

What should we talk about next? Did you have a good time over at PaperWings while I was gone? I hope so.

Comment here with what you’d like more information about. I’ll do the legwork and give you what you need to know.

Want to know about characters? Dialogue? Setting? Mood? Theme? Something else? Let me know. I’d like this blog to be interactive, which means that everybody gets something out of it, but the more you put in, the more you get out.

And since I’m not actually giving you anything to work with today except for asking you a question, I’ll send you over to another writer’s blog. Here’s a post about Character Arcs on Screenwriter on Location that you might enjoy. Warning: Includes Star Wars.

Conflict: (wo)Man versus…what?

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I (Lara) am going on vacation! Sort of…moving isn’t really relaxing, is it? To get notified of when WriteLaraWrite is returning, be sure to subscribe to the blog, follow on Twitter, that sort of thing. (Use the buttons on the left column)

In lieu of a post this week, and to get you through the next couple of weeks while I pack up and move across country, I am going to send you fine people over to PaperWings Podcast!

PaperWings Podcast is a podcast and blog for comic writers and illustrators. They’ve got some really awesome posts about storytelling over there, and their recent posts about conflict are so good, I’m not even going to bother to write about the topic right now. Some people call it laziness, I call it resourcefulness and spreading the love. Chris and Lora are great people, and I think you’ll enjoy their words.

Without further adieu, here’s the series on conflict from PaperWings:

See you in a few weeks, my darlings! I will try to update when I can, but no promises until a few weeks from now. We will definitely be back to speed in August, so long as I have Internet. Or a babysitter so I can find some Internet.