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NOVEL CONCEPTION: October 2012
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Monday, October 29, 2012. Confusing Fiction with Autobiography. What does it mean to “write what you know”? Based on some of the submissions I receive, I fear many writers are taking this common piece of writing advice too literally. And so on and so on, and yet, they all wrote what they knew. Think about the emotional core of your characters’ experiences, and relate them to times in your own life when you have experienced something sufficiently emotionally similar that you can relate to their joy,...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: January 2013
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Monday, January 7, 2013. The Terroir of a Novel. From terre, "land") is the special characteristics that the. Of a certain place bestow upon a particular product. It can be very loosely translated as "a sense of place," which is embodied in certain characteristic qualities, the sum of the effects that the local environment has had on the product. My debut novel, The Angels’ Share. Have inseparable influence over the story. Ditto the Mississippi River in Tom Sawyer. San Francisco and Hillsborough. Started...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: Switching Gears- Literary Ones
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Monday, October 15, 2012. Switching Gears- Literary Ones. Breaking down the novel into bite sized morsels, or how to pretend you aren't writing a novel. The idea of the short story is super appealing to most writers. Probably because it has the word short in it. Short sounds like this writing project could have a completion date in the current week, instead of the current decade. This appeals to the novelist. The short story or flash fiction completion also serves another purpose. You can submit your...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: Organizing a Novel
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Monday, December 10, 2012. Moving from line editing a complete novel to drafting a new one feels weird. Very weird. But not at first. For my current work-in-progress novel, I decided to go back to the note cards. This time, however, I was going to be ultra organized about it. With two main POVs, two time frames, and that third narrative factor, I need more information at a single glance than I ever needed before. So I devised a template:. On the opposite side the tense- past or present. Jude always seeme...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: Confusing Fiction with Autobiography
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Monday, October 29, 2012. Confusing Fiction with Autobiography. What does it mean to “write what you know”? Based on some of the submissions I receive, I fear many writers are taking this common piece of writing advice too literally. And so on and so on, and yet, they all wrote what they knew. Think about the emotional core of your characters’ experiences, and relate them to times in your own life when you have experienced something sufficiently emotionally similar that you can relate to their joy,...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: Narrative Transitions
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Monday, October 8, 2012. I can’t stand novels that jump forward or back time without a few markers or anchoring descriptions. Perhaps it’s a literary pet peeve or something I find aesthetically annoying, or it could be I lack mental acuity or am too muddled in my daily life to suss out broad leaps in narrative time. But I read a lot. And when authors do this it never fails to irk me. When I’m reading a novel and this happens, I muddle through a couple three sentences thinking, “What? In her last novel, "...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: Patience, Grasshopper
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Sunday, October 28, 2012. What I didn’t plan on was how hard it would be to transition from story-writing mode back to novel writing mode. Novels are entirely different beasts, and they require a great deal more patience, a willingness to sit and stew in your thoughts, to think about your characters lives and how to gradually unfold these lives across the span of a book. After days of what I thought were false starts, I gave up briefly and returned to story writing. And for a while I felt better, mor...
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Winter 2014 Newsletter
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Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter. Benefits of Membership & 2016-17 Program. Women’s National Book Association. WNBA National Reading Group Month. WNBA SF Chapter Board Members. Spring 2015 Newsletter, 2nd Edition. Special Edition Newsletter: October 2013. WNBA-SF Chapter Summer 2012 Newsletter. You are here: Home. San Francisco Chapter Winter 2014. Mary E. Knippel. Sunday, January 12, 2014, 2-4 pm. Anuary is International Creativity Month a whole month dedicated to Creativity!
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: December 2012
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Monday, December 10, 2012. Moving from line editing a complete novel to drafting a new one feels weird. Very weird. But not at first. For my current work-in-progress novel, I decided to go back to the note cards. This time, however, I was going to be ultra organized about it. With two main POVs, two time frames, and that third narrative factor, I need more information at a single glance than I ever needed before. So I devised a template:. On the opposite side the tense- past or present. Jude always seeme...
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NOVEL CONCEPTION: The Terroir of a Novel
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Monday, January 7, 2013. The Terroir of a Novel. From terre, "land") is the special characteristics that the. Of a certain place bestow upon a particular product. It can be very loosely translated as "a sense of place," which is embodied in certain characteristic qualities, the sum of the effects that the local environment has had on the product. My debut novel, The Angels’ Share. Have inseparable influence over the story. Ditto the Mississippi River in Tom Sawyer. San Francisco and Hillsborough. Started...