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By: Maryann Yin,
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Today Encore will launch a three-hour adaptation of Herman Melville‘s Moby Dick, airing in time for the author’s 192nd birthday. Follow this link to download a free eBook copy of the classic novel.
The production stars William Hurt as Captain Ahab, Gillian Anderson as his wife and Ethan Hawke as Starbuck. Mike Barker directed and Nigel Williams wrote the script.
Here’s more about the miniseries: Moby Dick is set in Nantucket, 1850. Captain Ahab, a veteran whale hunter who lost his leg to Moby Dick, wants revenge. Twisted by bitterness, he’ll put the entire crew of the Pequod in extreme danger to hunt down the great white whale. And he’ll stop at nothing to kill his nemesis.”
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Been a while since I posted here! This is my take on my favorite character on Battlestar Galactica —the delightfully cranky cigar-chomping Ms. Kara Thrace.
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By: Martha Alderson, M.A.,
on 3/4/2008
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When writers get stuck, it is usually because one or more of the three plot elements has been ignored by:
• Concentrating on action only, forgetting that character provides interest and is the primary reason that people go to the movies and read books.
• Organizing solely around the character and overlooking the fact that dramatic action provides the excitement every story needs.
• Forgetting to develop the overall meaning or the thematic significance of their stories. When the dramatic action changes the character at depth over time, the story becomes thematically significance.
It's tough to juggle all of these elements at once. We end up trying too hard. Our writing suffers. We become stiff and self-conscious. The joy of writing diminishes.
This isn't such a bad thing, if you're committed to being a writer. Learning the craft of writing is constant. The more you know, the more you appreciate how much you don't know.
In a plot consultation, the omissions slowly become clear to the writer. The more she understands both her strengths and her weaknesses, the faster she is able to identify what isn't working, why, and how to proceed.
The only way to know our strengths and weaknesses is to get feedback -- from a critique group, an editor, a plot consultant, or by individual plot analyzation.
Plot is made up of three intertwining threads:
• Character emotional development
• Dramatic action
• Thematic significance
In other words, the protagonist acts or reacts. In so doing, he or she is changed and something significant is learned.
When you write, do you juggle all three plot lines at once? Or, do you write one plot line a draft? Always curious about other writers' process......
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If you’ve decided to make 2008 the year you finally become a published children’s author yourself, you’ll want to join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club to get the help you need to do that.
Here’s what you’ll receive as a member of the club:
1. Every month you will be invited to attend a LIVE teleclass with a successful children’s book author and/or illustrator, then you will receive a CD of this recorded event.
You’ll get the “inside scoop” on what it takes to become published in today’s markets.
2. Every Monday morning you’ll also receive an email with a short writing assignment designed to improve your skills in some area of children’s writing.
You can choose whether or not you complete this assignment and turn it in for review.
3. Every week you can submit a children’s manuscript for review. Then, every Wednesday night you can attend a manuscript critique telesession, where you’ll receive constructive comments and suggestions about your manuscript from at least one published children’s book writer.
Your writing career will really start to take off after just a few months in our club.
And, you’ll receive all this help - each and every month - for only $27.00 per month.
But wait, there’s more.
Don’t just take my word for it.
If you’d like a FREE trial membership for the month of January, email [email protected] and put the words, “free trial membership” in the subject area.
Try membership in the CWCC first to see how you like it, without paying a cent. Note: This offer applies to new members only.
But you’d better hurry.
This special offer will only be available today, January 7th. It expires at midnight tonight.
Make 2008 the year you finally DO something to create the writing career you’ve always dreamed of!
See you in print!
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Members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club are going to hit the ground running this month with a series of events early in the month.
First, tonight is our weekly manuscript critique telesession at 8:00 central time. It’s good to see at least a few club members are ready to refocus on their writing now after taking time out to enjoy the holidays.
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Second, next Wednesday night, January 9th, at 8:00 central time, children’s author and presenter Margot Finke will present a special teleclass for members of the CWCC about how to design and present a super school presentation.
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Did you realize that most stories written for very young children today are written from a single point of view?
If you’re having trouble finding a publisher for a picture book manuscript, and you’re switching viewpoints with every line, that’s probably one of the reasons your manuscript is being rejected.
This week, members of the Childen’s Writers’ Coaching Club are studying point of view and are practicing writing a story from a single point of view. They are also learning how to start the action of the story on the very first page.
Become a member of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club and receive this week’s assignment plus an email invitation to this week’s manuscript critique telesession where we actually TALK about what’s working, and what’s not, in every manuscript we critique.
Become a member of the Club TODAY!
Why wait?
Learn the “tricks of the trade” right now to get your career started as a published children’s book author!
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Many people want to become published children’s book authors but they just don’t know how to go about it.
Writing for children is different from writing for adults. There’s more to it than simply featuring children in your stories.
Learn the “tricks of the trade” to become a published children’s book author by joining the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club here at the National Writing for Children Center.
For just $27.00 a month you’ll have the opportunity for weekly writing exercises, weekly manuscript critique telesessions, and a monthly hour-long teleclass with a published children’s writer and/or illustrator.
As a member of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club you won’t need to GUESS at what you should do to write marketable stories and articles for children. You’ll KNOW what you need to do to succeed.
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Tonight is our weekly manuscript critique telesession for members of the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club. Each member can submit a manuscript for critique today and then listen as other members give suggestions and comments about it tonight.
This week’s practice writing assignment was to write a short, short story in The Core of Three. So we’ll be going over those, too.
Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club for only $27.00 a month and get the help you need to become a published children’s book author yourself.
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THE CHILDREN’S WRITERS’ COACHING CLUB (CWCC)
Need help creating your career as a children’s writer and/or illustrator?
OR - do you want to learn ways to make more of the writing and illustrating career you already have?
Then join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club.
Our club not only helps beginning writers and illustrators learn the tricks of the trade for children’s writing and illustrating, it also helps established children’s writers and/or illustrators learn to market their books, author visits, and even their own writing courses and workshops more effectively.
You’ll work with both published children’s writers and illustrators, and those who want to become children’s writers or illustrators, to create the children’s writing or illustrating career of your dreams.
And the best part is, you won’t ever have to leave your home - so you can enjoy your coaching club sessions in your pjs or bathrobe, if you like. What could be better than that?
Membership - only $27.00 per month
Become a member of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club and attend a live teleclass for children’s writers and illustrators each and every month.
Each monthly teleclass will focus on writing for children and will feature an interview and/or lesson from a published children’s author and or illustrator.
In addition to this live teleclass, members will receive a CDs of the recorded teleclass, so, as a member, you can listen to it at any time and never have to miss the monthly session.
You will also be invited to join a club listserv so you can discuss each month’s teleclass via email. In addition, you will have the opportunity to take advantage of short, weekly writing lessons and exercises for guided practice about some aspect of children’s writing.
Club members are also able to take part in weekly manuscript critique telesessions and submit their manuscripts for professional critique. At least one published children’s book author will critique each manuscript you submit.
Join the Children’s Writers’ Coaching Club here.
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Many aspiring children’s writers - and even published children’s writers - find critique groups to be helpful.
Through the years I’ve belonged to several critique groups myself.
Quite often though, I’ve seen writers get discouraged from the feedback they received through critique groups and a few of these writers even gave up trying to write for children.
That should never happen!
Here are some tips for helping everyone make the most of a critique group:
1. Be sure to join or start a critique group that includes at least a few published children’s writers. If no one in your group has been published, it is a case of “the blind leading the blind.” Writers in the group might not know what to look for in a manuscript. As a result, comments and suggestions will be based more on personal tastes rather than any real knowledge of what makes a children’s manuscript marketable.
2. Make sure the comments and suggestions given to each writer are positive and constructive. Too often, manuscript critiques turn into attacks on a manuscript rather than any positive and constructive criticism of the work itself. Also, beginning writers tend to nit-pick over small details (the color of a character’s hair or the word used to describe something) rather than the elements that will make or break a story - elements such as conflict, rising action, point-of-view, etc.
3. Start by critiquing short pieces rather than novels-in-progress. I recommend this for a couple of reasons.
First, critiquing short pieces will allow time for everyone in the group to submit work for critique at each and every session. You want each person to feel he/she received something of value at each session. With shorter manuscripts there is less of a tendency to get bogged down with a single manuscript and spend too much time on it, leaving little or no time for critiquing all the other manuscripts presented for critique.
Second, shorter pieces are easier to critique, especially if everyone is checking to see if these short works include all the key elements of a marketable story. It’s often difficult (particularly for beginning children’s writers) to identify just what needs to be changed or revised in the chapter of a novel, for example. But generally, the problems in a short work, like a picture book manuscript or a short-story, can be easily identified if writers know what these are.
4. Give yourself time to get to know and trust each member in the group. Your critique partners can become valued friends and associates over the years. But it takes a while to really get to know and trust someone new.
When you join or start a critique group, before each and every meeting, remind yourself to be positive, helpful, and constructive in your criticism.
Try to never leave the session knowing that you’ve made a writer feel hopeless about his or her work. Do everything you can to make each writer in the group feel comfortable, even if you are not the leader of the group.
Over time, members will begin to trust each other and be willing to share more and more of their work with the group.
5. Celebrate each member’s publishing successes.
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For a professional critique of your children’s short-story or picture book manuscript, join the Children’s Writers Coaching Club today and submit your manuscript for critique by Wednesday, October 31st.
Then join other members for a live critique telesession on Thursday, November 1st, at 8:00 p.m. (central time). You’ll receive the call-in information for this session with your membership verification.
Join the club Here.
Happy writing!
Suzanne Lieurance
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