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The Anatomy Of Construction
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I believe we can all write, and all have stories to tell. “The Anatomy Of Construction is a graphic novel in development that is designed to unlock the writer in everyone- from novice, to genius.
Because it is a draft, I welcome your feedback. T
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So what's it all about?
The reason I need to present the final version of “The Anatomy...” in a graphic novel format is to prove the pudding. You see, it's fine and dandy for Stephen King to write about how to write- he's one of the greats. Me, well, I'm not Stephen Ki...
A little more on what's happening...
First the bad news- I'm going to have a clean up here of the links section.A big clean up.Like a benevolent dictator I'm going to keep those of great social value, and my friends and supporters. No offense intended to those who don't make the cut, an...
Time to clear out the tumble-weed
It’s been a long time, eh? First, let me point out, things are going to change around here. “The Anatomy” has started to take shape. During my extended break I have been experimenting with a variety of different mediums.From painting, drawing,...
Exit music (For a blog)
I’ve really enjoyed working on “The Anatomy...” for the months I have. It’s been fun developing a book online; I’ve met some great people, I’ve grown as a writer, and I’ve learned a great deal.The Community of bloggers has be a constant...
Not one second less
Do not approach a story as a mathematical formula. Avoid ideas that a story is a series of separate elements. A poem is not made up like a batch of scones.Story is a stream rippling over rocks and not easy to control without impeding its flow.Don’...
The difficult is simple
Tying your shoes is simple, isn’t it? Write down how to tie your shoes, make it a perfect, useful description. It’s not easy? Someone would have explained how to tie your shoes first and walked you through it many times. This do...
Strong teachers
There is much we have to learn from and about writing. You don’t need to buy every text book on the subject. You would do well with just a dictionary and “The Elements of style” By William Strunk Jr and EB White. Most of your text books...
Entering the city with bliss bestowing hands
The responsibility of the writer is not limited to writing, editing and, polishing the story. The writer’s purpose is to get the story out to people.You don’t have to publish; you don’t have to show your book to anyone, but if you like of what ...
Returning to the origin, back to the source.
After people have read what you’ve written, your worst fear is faced and overcome. If people like it, they tell you. If people don’t like it, they lie to you, and tell you they like it.Your friends will share it with others.Your story is no longe...
The cow and the man, both gone out of sight
There comes a time when you are done with editing. You will know when that time, and you must make a committed decision.This doesn’t mean you can’t make small typographical changes, but it means it’s time to let the story out of the door.Hand o...
The cow forgotten, leaving the man alone
When you are editing be dispassionate- Natalie Goldman calls it “Samurai mode” in her book “Writing down the bones” Eliminate all unnecessary words.Your editing pen, is a sword of life. You cut that which harms the story; you cut that which o...
Riding home on the cows back
In the second redraft, the story will be apparent.The editing will not be complete. You have story, but you must bring it out into the world properly.Write to be read.Remove all the punctuation and grammatical mistakes.Make things clear; plot is not ...
Herding the cow
The first draft will never be perfect; a rough draft does not make a marketable product. There will be typing mistakes, grammatical train wrecks, unnecessary words, and misshapen ambiguities. It’s okay to have these in the rough draft. If y...
Catching the cow
Listening and writing is not enough. You have to listen, and write, and get the story down on the page.All of the story, intact and whole; a rough draft.As you are writing, let the characters take the deviations they need to make the story happen. A ...
Seeing The Cow
Ignore the first page of the first draft. It won’t be the story and it won’t describe what you see in the story.Consider your first draft getting to know the characters.As you write chapter after chapter after chapter, things will change. Charact...
Seeing traces of the cow
When you begin, the story will be a dead thing, an idea.“The man who could not eat the color red.”This is all it will be. You’ll have this idea, and many others.“The fish that feel in love with the moon,” “A rainy night homeless in Capeto...
Looking for the cow
It's hard to believe you could come up with a story so fascinating that you could write one hundred thousand words in its telling. You’ll think of many other stories other people have written. Maybe you'll have ashamedly thought, “What if I just ...
Breathing life into characters
Leave all the pretending to the page, but when you pretend, pretend earnestly.If your character is an outlaw motorcyclist, don’t affect a different voice and take on some bravado.As you are writing try to understand the character's life, what they ...
Writing is nothing about self deception.
Sitting and talking to your friends about your great book that you’ve not yet started is self deception; nothing but writing will produce that book you long for. Self deception is revealed by an absence of writing; this absence is not writ...
The Rules of the Road
Writing is an art. While there are rules to writing there is no formula to writing a good novel. These rules are simple. First, you must fall in love with a story Then, you must write a rough draft of that story. Finally, polish that draft...
Love story.
That is, of course, what you are doing when you write- expressing a great love for story. We write because we love the story so much we want to share it with others. There are many other reasons, all legitimate, but this is the most importa...
How to show your love for story.
You mustn’t feel as though you are fighting for words- that’s not to say give up, walk away; just forget your expectations. Don’t get any big ideas, they’re not going to happen. Big ideas will lead to never writing a word. You won’t...
Writing with feeling
When you are writing, do not write something cold and mechanical. Write with feeling, your feeling.Do not sit and ask, “What is a good metaphor for this feeling?” because if you have to articulate in mechanical thought what you feel, you don’t ...
One
Everything is written in the same fashion: One word at a time. This is not an academic point. Hallmark greeting cards, The Bible, every great novel were not started with intention, but one word written on the page. The Words you write, your fi...
One word at a time.
Every word you write is practice for the next. Knowing how to choose the next word, happily putting it on the page, happily letting it live on the page; all of these things take courage, and a certain skill. It’s not a big courage, it’s nothin...
Let your mind not abide
Describe the forest and the tress and each and every leaf without lingering; the story must be complete without halting its flow. Let character nor leaves nor trees detract from the other. Description, dialog, scene, and character cannot be sep...
The wonder of it all
You must tell the story, your story, with your words, through new eyes; eyes that see all things as new. To bring life to a story you must see that which is fascinating in what you see as mundane. You see your face everyday in the mirror, but tr...
Not One Thing
Don’t worry about “Write what you know” and rules of that ilk. You can no more write what you don’t know than turn the tides by wishing.Story and you can no more be separate than the hand that strums guitar strings and that which fingers chor...
Love not the secret chord
The best you can ever do is to love what you do- but one cannot survive on love alone- one needs a little house for that love to live in This is story, or more specifically, your story telling. To be a writer, you must love your storytelling, and...
Writing makes neither God or Martyr
You will not be vindicated or victimized for writing. You write, and your writing is an extension of who you are. Pay no mind to ideas of fame, fortune and notoriety. Your duty, as a writer, is to write, not to plant a tree and hope for it to...
