▣ Dialogue and how people talk
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People have some colorful speech and I like to find unusual sayings that work into my novels sometimes. Because I enjoy the picture the saying evokes, I hope others will as well.
Memoirs Writers:
What unusual things did your parents say? Do you recall an incident when someone failed to understand a local saying? Write about how people talked when you were growing up.
▣ Holiday Melancholia
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- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
Everyone seems to become more sensitive during the holidays and if something is wrong, it feels much more wrong at that time than at any other time. Depression looms large when you've no one to share your life with and if you don't have much money it's easy to think there is nothing you can do to brighten your holidays.
That isn't True!
I like the idea of lonely people banding together to share the season like a family would. It may not be ideal but it can be special. Some recreation centers and senior centers have parties ect and are cheap to join but for those who this won't work for, there are still options. A friend of mine recently lamented that he had no car, no money, and his family wasn't even getting together this year for a celebration because they couldn't afford it. I made some of the following suggestions to him as well as some other ideas more personal to his situation.
Christmas is magic...don't forget it but let the magic reach out to and envelope you. Santa Clause is a spirit if not a man.
▣ More about writing from workshop notes
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- songs,cry, why, when,where, what, who
- synopsis,how to,surprize,ending, Agents,Editors
- Thanksgiving, thankful, recipe. friends
- threat, worry, protagonist, tension, micro tension
- tour, Columbus, Chillicothe, Bainbridge, Sinking spring,ancestors, genealogy, family stories, Crum,cemetary
- What\'s up,shoes, applacian,nature, drama,mystery, suspense, shoes
- writer\'s block,woodcarving, character sheets,review of character,breaking the logjam
- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
For my memoirs followers: Write about a special Thanksgiving. Who was there, was it good, was it bad. Why? What was happy, and what was sad about it.
▣ Expanding your Character
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- pain,material,poem,liquid grief
- pesky,poem, challenge,serendipity,joy, hate,unfair
- poem, Bookworld,time, phone, alone
- poetry, soul, different designs, the veil,respite, me, me, me
- reminder, blog, mysteries of southern ohio
- scribes, house of scribes, new world, peace pipe, natives
- short story,burglar, post, shotgun
- SIC,crime,goals, book signings,Chillicothe,Bite of the Serpent, mysteries of southern Ohio, google
- songs,cry, why, when,where, what, who
- tour, Columbus, Chillicothe, Bainbridge, Sinking spring,ancestors, genealogy, family stories, Crum,cemetary
- What\'s up,shoes, applacian,nature, drama,mystery, suspense, shoes
- writer\'s block,woodcarving, character sheets,review of character,breaking the logjam
- writer\'s voice, Mary Higgan\'s Clark,be yourself,unique, Bite of the Serpent
- writing romance, the watcher,Boucheran, writing conference, hike in snow
In this writing I'm fresh back from a writing convention with a lot of new ideas. I hope they will help others as well.
▣ What I notice about lines from songs
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I notice that song titles and some lines from songs often ask the same questions that we are told we should answer in our writing, such as who, what, when, where, and why. Therefore we get songs that say things like the following:
Why does my heart keep on beating, why do the stars still shine?
Who put the ram in the ramma damma ding dong...who was that man, I'd like to shake his hand.
Where have all the flowers gone?
What in the world's come over you?
Why, why, why baby, why, you make me crybaby, crybaby, crybaby cry?
When will I be loved?
Does the fact that we ask these questions in song mean that we are all struggling all the time to learn why things are as they are?