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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): Write like a film director?
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Thursday, 19 February 2015. Write like a film director? One of the things I found hard to get to grips with when I first started writing thrillers was the idea of tension or conflict on almost every page. ‘What, every page,’ I asked myself? I am not saying that all types of fiction should be like that – far from it - but if you are goin...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): Ready Made Flaws - Phobias
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Friday, 16 November 2012. Ready Made Flaws - Phobias. 8220;There is nothing to fear if you refuse to be afraid.” Ghandi. Sympathy is easily engaged – as most of us have some irrational fears at some point. That is not to say we are all irrational – but depending on circumstances, we all have the ability to act irrational under extreme d...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): April 2015
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Twist endings are difficult to pull off as so many writers either signpost too obviously or not at all. Then the reader feels cheated if it comes totally out of the blue – how could they have spotted it, they ask? I have tried to do twist endings in many of my own short stories and also tried it in a novel. It is in...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): May 2015
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Sunday, 17 May 2015. T is for Terror. Terror, according to my dictionary is the feeling/emotion of great fear. I imagine it to be fear almost at the point of paralysis… A frightening place indeed. . Then, when they come out of the reading experience, they can feel relief that what they read was not real and return to their everyday world feel...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): Making the supernatural natural?
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Tuesday, 21 June 2011. Making the supernatural natural? Turning the supernatural into the superbelievable? That, as I see it, is the challenge to all paranormal thriller writers. Making supernatural elements fit into a thriller story so seamlessly that the reader accepts them without question, is not easy. Of course making the world the chara...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): Expecting the Unexpected.
http://writingsavedmylife.blogspot.com/2015/04/expecting-unexpected.html
PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Tuesday, 7 April 2015. Twist endings are difficult to pull off as so many writers either signpost too obviously or not at all. Then the reader feels cheated if it comes totally out of the blue – how could they have spotted it, they ask? I have tried to do twist endings in many of my own short stories and also tried it in a novel. It is in...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): Premonitions and Prophecies.
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Premonitions may be quite a useful tool in thriller writing. They can and do indicate future things (usually going horribly wrong) - and they are often arbiters of death, dying or some other catastrophic event. But even when all the charlatans are taken out of the equations we still remain fascinated with the idea that so...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life)
http://writingsavedmylife.blogspot.com/2015/03/light-bulbmoments-on-dark-themes-so.html
PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Sunday, 15 March 2015. Light bulb Moments on Dark Themes. So where do the ideas come from? Perhaps I can give an example of how it worked for me with one project. The original idea for my latest book “The Afterlife of Darkmares” came to me from apparently nothing? Gleaming in the sunlight. There was something very off centre about him…. Do yo...
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life): The good, the bad and the ugly (insane)!
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PAT NEWCOMBE, RomanticThriller Writer's blog, (aka writing saved my life). I blog about writing romantic thrillers - and sometimes things that go bump in the night! Tuesday, 14 June 2011. The good, the bad and the ugly (insane)! Now that I am getting used to social networking I thought I would make a few comments on what, it seems to me, is good about it and what is not! In other words the good, the bad and the ugly, (aka insane)! Tied into this, of course, for me, is my blog (tadaa! And all very welcome...
