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TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 Aug 7-13 Edition
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When Should You Start a New Chapter?
When composing chapters for a book, try to contain scenes within chapters, similar to scenes in plays. As long as the scenes are related to a single block of action or topic, keep them within the same chapter. If a change or transformation is involved, by all means, start a new chapter. Another way to…
INUNDATION—The Drowning of Prince Edward Island by David Compton
INUNDATION The Drowning of Prince Edward Island has been recently published by David Compton through Friesen Press. INUNDATION begins in the middle of the 21st century. Although it is a work of fiction, it hews closely to current scientific thinking on the challenges of climate change. It culminates in a series of devastating storms, the…
TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 July 31-Aug 6 Edition
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The Music of Writing
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the music the words make. ~ Truman Capote, Truman Capote: Conversations The best writing has a certain musicality to it so that it flows smoothly from one word to the next, one sentence, paragraph, and chapter to another. It’s not just the…
On Writing and Thinking
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. ~ George Orwell George Orwell presents us with a complicated condition regarding writing and thought. Writing is a product of the mind. Anything we express in writing is something we have thought…
Writers and Social Media
Have you ever come up with an idea you thought was positively brilliant, mind-blowing, revolutionary, or life-changing? No doubt you have. But what did you do with that idea? Chances are you forgot about it. It’s possible you’re an avid note-taker and you jotted down the idea somewhere. If you’re like me, you might have…
TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 July 24-30 Edition
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TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 July 17-23 Edition
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TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 July 10-16 Edition
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TWP Weekly Writing Post™ 2016 July 3-9 Edition
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