A beat, a beat, what the bubble is a beat in a story? My imagination, when I first heard this term, was a beating, but no. A beat is a moment in time in a story where discoveries or actions cause forward momentum. Discoveries – things we learn – are changes in knowledge. Decisions – … Continue reading A Beat in A Beat
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How to get to the Starting Point
And it's not because I forgot it was Friday again. It's about stories. Where the open lies, where the build happens, how it all crashes together to form an ending. I use a couple of methods to get the shape of the story. The first thing I do is a paragraph about the idea. A … Continue reading How to get to the Starting Point
Further to that Idea
Mentioned here, is the next stage of the preparation. It's the process of getting one of those little outline thingies for every character in the story. Why? Because if the writer doesn't know why the character is in the story, and can't understand why they'd do it this way and not that way, then the … Continue reading Further to that Idea
An Idea
It's been on the backburner for a while, and as I have so much trouble staying online for more than half a minute at a time, this is what you get. It's a bit of fun, and one day it may be a real story. This is how my stories start life: Two: Robbers, Roos … Continue reading An Idea
Cage Dunn - Fibber, Fabricator, Teller-of-Tall-Tales 