Tag: revision
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It’s Personal: Some Provisional Insight into Creating Fictional Characters through Research
My character Tim is lonely like I imagine my old friend was lonely all those months he spent working for a lumber company, getting on planes and flying across the country.
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Doubling
I know: not a true double. But think about it a minute: how rarely do we ever really see exact repetitions?
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Scale
Every few minutes or so, another car passed. More trucks than cars, actually; I’d left town behind and ventured into farm country, where plowed fields like the one captured in this post’s featured image dominate.
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Dancing for Two: One Reason Why this Writer Needs to Connect Early and Often with His Readers
I am working on a scene in which two characters, a young man and a young woman, begin dancing. They are at a wedding; the young man is old friends with the groom. The young woman is dating another of the young man’s friends.
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Connection
Usually there’s a student aide at the desk when I leave the classroom. Not tonight. Tonight the lab is mine alone.
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Rejection – Take 2
Two of my students write on their smartphones. Another records himself reading class notes aloud, so he can play the tapes back to himself and study during his hour commute to campus. One student writes her drafts by hand, while another, who also writes by hand sometimes, feels less restricted and can get organzied more easily when composing electronically.…
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Rejection – Take 1
This happened a while ago. What happened was, I wrote a story about a young nurse and her elderly patient for the “Bridge the Gap” contest Camera Obscura was putting on. I felt great about the story. While I now believe I felt good simply because I’d finished the piece, at the time I’d managed…
Patrick Faller 