Posts Tagged ‘How to write a novel’

  • How to Write a Story

    May 29th, 2017 | How to write a novel | journalpulp | No Comments

    Here’s how you create a setting: One hour before nightfall, on a pink-and-blue evening in the third week of August, 2011 … Here’s how you create a character: a solitary man traveling on foot … Here’s how you introduce a situation: entered the small, tree-shadowed town of Clifton — an isolated village around which many […]

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  • Rules For Writing: Beware The Laundry-List & Overly Prescriptive

    Rules For Writing: Beware The Laundry-List & Overly Prescriptive

    September 15th, 2011 | How to write a novel, Writing | journalpulp | 8 Comments

    There is a general structure (of sorts) to storytelling — though if ever you hear it explained in a way that even starts to sound specific or in some other way regimented, walk or run the other direction. This general structure, in turn, is sometimes known as a “formula.” Thus there’s a very general formula […]

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