tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90416700807317466402024-03-05T03:55:00.257-08:00Melanie Anne PhillipsLife and TimesMelanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.comBlogger1838125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-89936704582349571482023-03-15T11:33:00.005-07:002023-03-15T11:33:55.483-07:00Spring in Bush Pasture Park, Oregon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEEqqrraEW1XuBT-AJS366ryRVc6gP3kqpC9ssr4NjKEFYBX0sCXr5lnwWJ75u5v6vccXoa1CciK6Pcf_6nQTCZ1ukK_BLtxasOsTWmAOUyIHPW4SSoY1hZjEZrf3ZlLOeKjCcqlqkGqQEq7C8-f183foQ3e6poaraDESb--sMA_Ljbyar3G783ayXw/s3584/Zoo%20and%20Santium%20100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="3584" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrEEqqrraEW1XuBT-AJS366ryRVc6gP3kqpC9ssr4NjKEFYBX0sCXr5lnwWJ75u5v6vccXoa1CciK6Pcf_6nQTCZ1ukK_BLtxasOsTWmAOUyIHPW4SSoY1hZjEZrf3ZlLOeKjCcqlqkGqQEq7C8-f183foQ3e6poaraDESb--sMA_Ljbyar3G783ayXw/w400-h225/Zoo%20and%20Santium%20100.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Taken on one of our many strolls on the grounds.Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-86849665712511856312023-03-15T11:09:00.000-07:002023-03-15T11:09:00.219-07:00Archetypes in Star Wars<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XScAf0_mfrU" width="320" youtube-src-id="XScAf0_mfrU"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-53901430752841675652021-05-16T12:14:00.005-07:002021-05-16T12:15:26.824-07:00Another Quote from Snippets and Bits<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65y2-xyqmIg8CX5b_HVBgALlonaS-n5SaQvMG1RUQ2sbs8pYUHRU94ZuUyQp8G56GU7WTYNlpek5qmyoNFWCrvuH-bBoO8HntWNenuw6SBAEovf2MFbIp63xylqQrafv8DWatPfqHnym8/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="524" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65y2-xyqmIg8CX5b_HVBgALlonaS-n5SaQvMG1RUQ2sbs8pYUHRU94ZuUyQp8G56GU7WTYNlpek5qmyoNFWCrvuH-bBoO8HntWNenuw6SBAEovf2MFbIp63xylqQrafv8DWatPfqHnym8/w400-h185/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-67947084797694768872021-05-16T11:23:00.004-07:002021-05-16T11:28:53.675-07:00Tarnished Karma Recording Session 1 1970s<p><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;">Tarnished Karma is my stage name for the music I compose.</span></p><p><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This may be the very first tape ever recorded of Tarnished Karma's original music back in high school days. It is one of a series of tapes of garage recording sessions containing demos, melody lines, hooks, and riffs that were documented for further development in future studio sessions. No one has heard them in almost exactly fifty years, including me! I found the cassettes in a box of old items last week, transferred this first one to digital and threw it onto a video. Its a bit scratchy, but hey - what a find! I'll publish more as I get them transferred to digital. Enjoy!</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/P_L_EvvQiQo" width="320" youtube-src-id="P_L_EvvQiQo"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-64510554598073499342021-05-16T11:03:00.003-07:002021-05-16T11:07:34.444-07:00Good morning!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrV0aXA8xvJW36GMxMluIce4vxRNvrFlGk9IgOmwarkrvQWS6gf9TiJYI-FhMUazcdPG6Lj3-wUeX1uTRiJ8pTsIQcwJcFqUUtoGqfF4rMIbSFs-bwLACDv6oXeCacdBWvianxxHwzwaa/s640/Photo+on+1-7-12+at+1.55+PM+%25232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIrV0aXA8xvJW36GMxMluIce4vxRNvrFlGk9IgOmwarkrvQWS6gf9TiJYI-FhMUazcdPG6Lj3-wUeX1uTRiJ8pTsIQcwJcFqUUtoGqfF4rMIbSFs-bwLACDv6oXeCacdBWvianxxHwzwaa/w400-h266/Photo+on+1-7-12+at+1.55+PM+%25232.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Been away from this blog for a while, but I'm back! I'm 68 now and eager to document and share my body of work everywhere I can so that it might live longer than I do. Everybody likes their own stuff, and I'm no exception. So, you'll find it here, there, and everywhere - all my favorites from nearly 2/3 of a century of creative efforts.</p><p>Enjoy!</p>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.comBurbank, CA, USA34.1808392 -118.30896616.2907360655073 -153.46521610000002 62.0709423344927 -83.1527161tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-17990967193262205952016-08-07T06:59:00.004-07:002016-08-07T06:59:58.413-07:00The Master Storyteller Method of Story Development<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;">
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Part One: Create A Story World</div>
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What is a story world? Think: the world of Harry Potter or the Star Wars universe. Whether you are planning a single story or a whole series, creating a diverse and detailed story world will enrich and inform each story you draw from it.</div>
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Part Two: Draw Out Your Storyline</div>
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While a story world describes the environment, situation, and issues that will define your story, it is not a story itself. Drawing on this material, you will create a storyline for your Main Character / Protagonist that will begin with something that upsets the status quo, follows a quest (both personal and logistic) and concludes with a choice that will determine success or failure.</div>
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Part Three: Incorporate Story Points</div>
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Though your storyline may make sense and feel as it it touches all the bases, often a number of important story points may be missing, hidden behind the passion of your storytelling and vision. Here you will refer to a complete list of essential story points ranging from the goal of the protagonist to the issue at the heart of the story’s moral dilemma to ensure that every crucial dramatic element is not only included, but fully integrated into the natural flow of your story.</div>
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Part Four: Refine Your Structure</div>
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Even if you have every essential story point represented, it does not necessarily mean that they are all working together toward the same dramatic purpose. In this part of the Master Storyteller Method, you’ll plot your story points against a unique structural template to determine where some of your dramatic elements may be working against each other or where holes and inconsistencies in your structure may exist. You’ll have the opportunity to choose which story points you’d like to adjust to make your story more structurally sound and which you wish to leave as they are because they work so well as is at a passionate level.</div>
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By the time you have completed the Master Story Method, your story will be passionately expressive and structurally sound. Your characters will be compelling, your plot riveting, your them involving, and your genre not quite like any other.</div>
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Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-62447490668682794342016-08-05T07:16:00.002-07:002016-08-05T07:16:32.973-07:00The War Between Creativity and Structure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Perhaps the greatest hurdle in writing is the attempt to bring structure to a story without putting your Muse in a straight jacket.<br />
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Often structure is brought into the picture too soon, clamping your passion into an iron maiden that pierces it more deeply with every turn of a structural screw until it bleeds out entirely.<br />
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In contrast, writing with purposeless abandon creates a jellyfish of a story: an amorphous blob of subject matter with no spine, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.<br />
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The <a href="http://storymind.com/msm/index.html">Master Storyteller Method</a> was designed to bring passion and structure together seamlessly, at the right place and the right time in the story development process.<br />
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When first starting to write, our ideas usually come fast and furious. Many of them are little snippets: a notion for a line of dialog, a location in which some action will take place, the basic concept for a character, or perhaps a plot twist.<br />
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Sometimes, we begin with no more than a period of history or a topic or an ethical message that we’d like to explore in our book or screenplay, and the more we think about it, the more ideas we get.<br />
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Like the pieces to a jigsaw puzzle, each story concept is separate, and what's more, we haven't seen the picture on the box so we don't even know that we're trying to build.<br />
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What we are doing at this stage is developing a Story World - basically a realm of our interests or subject matter that is all of the same basic topic or genre, but really isn’t a story yet.<br />
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As the story world becomes more complete, we begin to get a sense of the story we want to tell. In fact, a single Story World can give birth to many different stories, such as with Harry Potter, Anne Rice’s Vampire Saga, and the Star Wars Universe.<br />
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The Master Storyteller Method provides techniques developing your story's world and discovering who's in it, what happens to them, and what it all means.<br />
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Your story world is like a map of the material you'd like to explore. Your story will be the specific path you take across it. Think of your Story World as a beautiful unspoiled landscape, untouched by the hand of man. You are a pioneer who is the first to see that gorgeous valley and your mind envisions a glorious city to be built there that works in harmony with the environment and provides an orderly life for its inhabitants.<br />
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You would not do well to have come with a predetermined “most efficient” city plan with all the streets and locations laid out with complete disregard to the terrain - to simply be stamped onto the land. Rather, you should look at the lay of the land and determine where a road can go straight and where it must go around a hill or a stand of trees to retain and even maximize the beauty of the scenic route.<br />
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Sometimes, alas, a tunnel must be drilled through a hill as it is the only way to get to a view, or a roadbed cleared through the trees so you can see the forest for them. But more often than not, if the landscape of your story is the guiding organizing property and the structure conforms to it, it will be a far finer city experience in the end.<br />
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The Master Storyteller Method gently creates a freeform structure: a means of organizing your story world that is both free and has form.<br />
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Eventually, you will have platted out your story city so that all the most impressive landmarks are left unaltered and there is an unbroken pathway that will convey your reader from one to the next until the sum total of your purpose in telling the story can be seen an appreciated.<br />
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But before you pave those roads and commit to construction, you'll want to be sure you have made all the best choices and that no better alternatives have emerged during your efforts to refine and revise your city plan. What you need is an objective way of double-checking that all the traffic will move smoothly, that the unexpected twists and turns in the road have a reason to be laid out that way and that no roads come up short or run into dead ends.<br />
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The Master Storyteller Method employs an interactive spot-check for all essential structural points and a guide against which you can compare your story-plan to see where and how far you may have diverged from a consistent structure.<br />
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Keep in mind that no structure has to be perfect in a finished work. Still, you'll want your structure to be as sound as possible without undermining the very concepts that drew you to want to write this particular story in the first place.<br />
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In the end, it is a judgment call for the author as to whether drifting off structure does too much harm or is okay in any given case.<br />
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The main point is that that no one reads a book or goes to a movie to experience a perfect structure but rather to have their passions ignited. So if it comes to a choice between an exciting thing and a structural thing, go with the excitement whenever you can, but be sure never to break structure completely or your readers or audience will not be able to cross that gap and will cease to follow you on your journey.<br />
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A self-guided version of the Master Storyteller Method is available for free on this web site. Just follow the steps provided, or jump right into the sections where your story could use the most help.<br />
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A customized version of the Master Storyteller Method is available in which Melanie Anne Phillips will discuss your story and your vision for thirty minutes of consulting time by phone, Skype or email, then create a step by step guide to help you get the most out of the method. Cost: $100<br />
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A personalized approach to the Master Storyteller Method provides live guidance and feedback from Melanie Anne Phillips whenever you need it including complete support through the entire process. Cost: $100 / hour<br />
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Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-331520632200353262016-04-14T09:17:00.002-07:002016-04-14T09:17:14.738-07:00WRITING SOFTWARE SALE - By Special Arrangement!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-15582973399298075832016-04-07T19:14:00.001-07:002016-04-07T19:14:42.524-07:00Does your story suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder?<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="3jhqd" data-offset-key="a8su3-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">
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Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-48695998002636111582016-03-30T07:35:00.001-07:002016-03-30T07:35:54.774-07:00Does Dramatica Support Multiple Protagonists?<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="9ofta" data-offset-key="a3bnm-0-0" style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span data-offset-key="a3bnm-0-0">A writer recently asked, do the Dramatica software and theory support multiple protagonists (several people trying to achieve the goal for themselves)?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="evv91-0-0">First, the short answer is yes, Dramatica supports that.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6vgve-0-0">Why does structure exist in fiction and where did it come from? In real life, when people are drawn toward a point of common interest - be it by forming a club or organization or just by competing for the same thing, they quickly adopt roles - they self-organize unconsciously. What are these roles and where do they come from? We each have mental tools with which to assess the current situation, determine a potential improved situation, and to devise a plan to change what is to what we’d like better. That’s narrative’s core. It is what the individual does. We each have, for example, our ability to reason and a sense of skepticism. But in a group, like a company or a political organization, we specialize, each adopting just one of those tools as our job. And so, someone emerges as the voice of reason, another as the resident skeptic. This helps the group see deeper into the area of common concern than if everyone was each trying to do all the jobs like general practitioners.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dngb6-0-0">Fiction is our attempt to understand these roles and how they interact with one another. It is our attempt to understand the best approach to take, of all those that might be considered, in order to achieve our desired goals. It is advice on how to best fulfill our obligation to ourselves in our personal narratives when they come into conflict with our group narratives. For 30,000 years we have told stories to provide guidance in life, and, through trial and error, the elements of those stories, such as the archetypal roles representing the roles we take in groups, became encoded as the conventions of story structure.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ahg6b-0-0">Because each of the roles in a group represents an aspect or facet of our individual minds, these conventions of story structure provide a map of how our individual minds work, as well as our “group minds.” When we developed Dramatica, we were the first to recognize that the structure of story modeled the human mind and the group mind. Armed with that understanding, we mapped out these conventions of structure from a psychological point of view and learned such things as the following:</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cc72-0-0">Some stories have a single goal with a protagonist and an antagonist. Other stories have single goals but have many people trying to achieve and/or prevent achievement of the goal. But only one of these people is a protagonist and one is an antagonist. Each of the others, though seeking the goal, operates as one of the other roles, such as reason or skepticism.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3kntb-0-0">So, it would be redundant to have “multiple protagonists” as they would all be trying to prove whether that same human quality is the best way to solve the problem. Protagonist represents our initiative - the motivation to instigate change. A better structured story would have one person who starts the quest, and others who join in to get there first. Then, each of the others could illustrate whether those other traits are the best ones to use and that would be the story’s message.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7a6nd-0-0">A good example that comes to mind are the characters in the old comedy “The Great Race” with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemon. Though Tony is the protagonist because he comes up with the idea of the Great Race and Jack is the antagonist because he is the long-time chief competitor to Tony, many people join the race, each seeking to win, and they represent the other archetypal roles in how they try to do it.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ej7f0-0-0">In summary, I would say that you would do better not to think of all those attempting to achieve the goal as protagonists, but as representing other human traits than “initiative,” which is what defines the actual protagonist. And from that point of view, Dramatica only allows one protagonist, but can have as many characters as you like trying to achieve the goal.</span></div>
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For your characters to be compelling, your readers will need to think of them as real people, not just dramatic functionaries or collections of traits.<br />
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To help make this happen, have each of your characters write a short one-page autobiographical piece about themselves in their own words, describing their childhoods, backgrounds, activities, interests, attitudes, relationships, pet peeves and outlooks on life.<br />
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Try to write these in the unique voice of each character and from their point of view. Don’t write about them; let them write about themselves.<br />
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This will give you the experience of what it is like to see the world through each character’s eyes, which will help you empathize with their motivations and thereby make it easier for you to write your novel in such a way that your readers can step into your characters’ shoes.<br />
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<a href="http://storymind.com/page559.htm">Writing Tip of the Day</a>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-49608309654437733652016-01-29T08:44:00.003-08:002016-01-29T08:44:59.309-08:00Use Nicknames to Enrich Your CharactersUse Nicknames to Enrich Your Characters<br />
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Nicknames are wonderful dramatic devices because they can work with the character’s apparent physical nature or personality, work against it for humiliating or comedic effect, play into the plot by telegraphing the activities in which the character will engage, create irony, or provide mystery by hinting at information or a back-story for the character that led to its nickname but has not yet been divulged to the readers.Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-30075422270962504312016-01-28T10:08:00.001-08:002016-01-28T10:08:07.421-08:00Avoid the Genre TrapAvoid the Genre Trap<br /><br />Too many beginning writers see genres as checklists of elements and progressions they must touch, like checkpoints in a race. But a genre is not a box in which to write. It is a grab bag from which to pull only those components you are truly excited to include in your story. Every story has a unique personality, you build it chapter by chapter or scene by scene with every genre choice you make. By drawing on aspects of many different genres and combining those pieces together, you can fashion an experience for your readers or audience unlike any other.<br /><br /><span style="color: #2962ff;"><a href="http://storymind.com/page559.htm">Writing Tip of the Day</a></span>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-83432568295162386852016-01-25T06:33:00.004-08:002016-01-25T06:33:45.945-08:00Be your own critic without being criticalBe your own critic without being critical<br />
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Here’s how: Write something. Do it now. Now look at it not as an author, but as a reader or audience and ask questions about it. For example, I write, "It was dawn in the small western town." Now I ask: 1. What time of year was it? 2. What state? 3. Is it a ghost town? 4. How many people live there? 5. Is everything all right in the town? 6. What year is it. Then let your Muse come up with as many answers for each question as possible. Example: 6. What year is it? A. 1885 B. Present Day C. 2050 D. After the apocalypse. Then repeat: D. After the Apocalypse. 1. What kind of apocalypse? 2. How many people died? 3. How long ago was the disaster, and so on. By alternating between critical analysis and creative Musings, you will quickly work out details about your story's world, who's in it, what happens to them and what it all means.<br />
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<a href="http://storymind.com/page559.htm">Writing Tip of the Day</a>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-81297830391543610372016-01-18T08:02:00.001-08:002016-01-18T08:02:07.594-08:00Cathedral Peak in Alpenglow<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/264443600/cathedral-peak-in-alpenglow-yosemite?ref=shop_home_active_1"><img border="0" src="https://img0.etsystatic.com/139/0/12342699/il_570xN.905608316_3xa3.jpg" /></a>Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-15891997627112484662016-01-18T07:48:00.002-08:002016-01-18T07:48:45.129-08:00Let your Muse run wildLet your Muse run wild
The easiest way to give yourself writer's block is to bridle your Muse by trying to come up with ideas. Your Muse is always coming up with ideas - just not the ones you want. If you try to limit the kind of material you will accept from her, she'll shut up entirely. So let your Muse run free. When she gives you an hysterical moment with a polka-dot elephant while writing a serious death scene, consider including it, perhaps as an hallucination. Give it a try, it might liven up your death scene! And after you've written it, if it doesn't work, then save it in a file for later use. It may seem like a waste of time, but your Muse will know she has been treated with respect, and will likely now give you just the idea you need.
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Be a Story Weaver - NOT a Story Mechanic!
Structure is important but not at the expense of passion. No one reads a book or goes to a movie to experience a great structure. Authors come to a story to express their passions and readers and audience members come to ignite their own. While structure is the carrier wave upon which passion is transmitted, without the passion, it's just noise. Conversely, passion without structure can be full of sound and fury yet signifying nothing. So find the proper balance. Let passion be your captain and structure be your guide.
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Melanie Anne Phillipshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16735842106224804235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9041670080731746640.post-70371586408162469682014-10-06T09:33:00.002-07:002014-10-06T09:33:27.439-07:0050 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks! Free Online Book<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;">
My book, 50 Sure-Fire Storytelling Tricks!, is now available free on the Storymind.com web site, as well as in paperback and for Kindle.</div>
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