Tag: writing
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Sleeping in her car, the attic room (Smoothing out the plot kinks)
I wove the plot together in the last few days and it works well, but it’s not a 10/10. Yet. There are kinks at the 3/4 mark where I know I’m forcing the plot instead of letting it play out. It’s too quick. It needs more space. Consequently, I’ve let the plot outline sit for…
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Breaking Free – Supporting Character Sketches
24 March – I’ve changed the working title from “Escaping Well” to “Breaking Free.” Simple plot, complex characters. That’s what we’re going for. I’d love to hear your comments: Which character is more fun? Who do you like more? These two characters have a significant function in the story, but they don’t have a strong…
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Breaking Free – Another go at the plot
24 March – I’ve changed the working title of this project from Escaping Well to Breaking Free. I find that to put a story together, I keep mowing over the plot, writing and rewriting to get it to sit nicely. In the following document, I’m writing from memory, from the heart. I’m not cutting and…
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Breaking Free – Conversation with ChatGPT
This is a planning document, helping me clarify my thoughts around the three main threads in the upcoming novel, Escaping Well. I had a conversation with ChatGPT, and was very pleased at the insights it spat out. It is not creating any storyline, but it is certainly giving positive feedback, which made me feel good…
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Breaking Free – Novel Concept.
Short synopsis and possible opener to “Escaping Well,” a companion novel to “Holding On.”
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The four ugly frames – Reframing memories part 2
I’ve been thinking lately about ‘reframing memories.’ (You can read an earlier post here.) My thoughts come from the idea that the colour of a frame will often hilight details of a similar colour inside an artwork. For example, a red frame will draw the viewer’s attention to the red elements and details the painter…
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