Category: Creative Process/Craft

Quote and Comment, Bradbury

Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps…

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Writing at Papa’s House and Yours

Monday morning, instead of logging on to my computer in my home office and dialing in for my first meeting of the day, I made…

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Percy’s Six Elements of Story: Delay Gratification and Withhold Information

[This is the sixth and final part in a series of posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story…

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Percy’s Six Elements of Story: Create Lower-Order Goals

[This is the fourth in a series of six posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story as found…

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Percy’s Six Elements of Story: Create Obstacles that Ramp Up Tension

[This is the third in a series of six posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story as found…

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