Category: Technicalities

  • Getting Into Character

    Getting into character is a theater term. It’s the effort an actor makes to embody the part they are playing—well beyond the script and the…

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  • Define Done

    It's been said many times: a writer never finishes a piece of writing, he just stops working on it. This is true. The risk is…

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  • When Writing Upstages Story

    Upstage is a theater term. This is when one actor over-acts and pulls the attention of the audience to himself——regardless of the intended focus of…

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  • Charismatic Characters

    What I am offering here is not mine. It is Charles Baxter's.* I am bringing it here because it was an epiphany for me (or…

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  • Editing Your Work

    Writing and editing are vastly different tasks. Both are essential and both must be undertaken. It's important to know when you're doing one vs. the…

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