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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Write Your Story Like a Top Chef and Achieve Unity of Opposites
Why am I so addicted to Top Chef? Or, for that matter, any of the reality chef shows like Iron Chef or Chopped? After all, cooking shows have been around forever. This is one of those times where the reality … Continue reading
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Tagged Chopped, cooking, Iron Chef, Mario Batali, reality TV, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef, unity of opposites
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How to Frustrate Your Character in Every Scene
My current manuscript in first person, so the reader hears everything the protagonist thinks. Yet, as I’m revising the pages, I notice a recurring trend in my writing. Each time my protagonist runs into a complication, she thinks ‘Crap.’ That … Continue reading
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Tagged break through, Chuck Norris, complication, emotion, epiphany, frustration, plot, protagonist, scene
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