Saturday, December 15, 2018

Character Arcs

So: character arcs. Taking a character and moving them from vantage point to another vantage point. How is the character seeing things differently at the end of the story?

Character Arcs in Literature

Pip/Great Expectations
Beginning vantage point
Ending vantage point
How he got there.


Friday, November 23, 2018

Submissions

https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/submission-guidelines/

https://relevantmagazine.com/write/

https://www.guideposts.org/tell-us-your-story

Spiritual Truths

WHat's your default endgame?

Mine is, what spiritual truth is this experience teaching me.

Charles Dickens and His Writing Process

I am currently reading Great Expectations and at the same time trying to write a novel myself during National Novel Writing Month. Reading, while writing, gives me such a greater appreciation of the craft of writing, and the craft of published writers.

I wonder, then, what was Dickens's writing process like....So here's some digging.

E.B. White: “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”