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NEW!! Article of
the Month: Emotion
Is Physical
Archive of Articles
of the Month:
Lots of Great Writing Articles
The Plotting Guidebook:
The Story Within
And my
Writer's Digest book on Point of View:
NEW! Questions of the
Month
All about Theme!
Archive of Questions of the Month
Top 10 Plot Problems
About Alicia Rasley
WELCOME TO THE WRITERS' CORNER
Free Wisdom for Writers of Popular FictionNEW! Another fiction editor, Theresa Stevens, and I have started a new blog about editing-- just whatever we think about as we edited novels and novellas. Recent posts have been about:
Sentence tension
Opening scenes
Mean editors
Deep POV
Slushpile gems
Structure primer
Check it out! Edittorrent is the blog's name.
Also-- sign up for my free newsletter. You'll get occasional writing articles and tips by email. Your email address will not be used for anything but mailing the newsletter. To subscribe, click here and send the blank email, or send a blank email to: writerscorner1-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
If you're a writer of popular fiction, you'll find plenty of advice around here on how to turbocharge your stories, from the award-winning novelist and workshop leader Alicia Rasley.
For instance, click here
for one of the Top
Ten Plotting Mistakes Writers Make.
And here are
many, many, too many
articles about writing:
Order my
Writer's Digest book on Point of View:
ONLINE CLASSES BY A MASTER TEACHER:
As a nationally known writing instructor, I conduct writing classes by email list, offering instruction, assignments, and expert critiquing for a single low price. Classes includeBasic Plotting
Advanced Plotting
The High Concept Synopsis
Dazzle the Editor
Power Point of View
Dynamic Dialogue
and many others.
You'll get plenty of one-on-one time. For references, please email me.
This is an inexpensive way to get expert mentoring and critiquing-- and it's easy. If you can get on the Web and type, you can pass this class. (No grades!)
If you prefer more free-form instruction, I also do individual coaching and editing.
THE POWER OF POINT OF VIEW GUIDEBOOK
A COMPREHENSIVE MANUAL FOR NOVELISTS.This manual will be released by Writer's Digest Books in March 2008. It explores the complex but essential subject of character Point of View in an interactive and non-judgmental fashion. It's for you if you want more than just "first-person/third person", and if you're tired of
rules and ready to make your own decisions about POV in your own story.
You're welcome to browse through some of my articles, or submit a "question of the month" about some writing issue or a problem you're having with your own writing.
I also have a complete guide to plotting and writing element booklets for sale.
Please honor my ownership of
this material.
If you'd like to print it out
for your personal use or to send to a friend, feel free, but retain my
name and copyright on the article.
If you're interested in reprinting it in a newsletter or linking to it on a website, please email me and ask for permission.
So have a seat, and settle in, and let's talk writing.
Big News!
My long-awaited (at least by me) plotting guide is available now. The Story Within Guidebook is an interactive guidebook that leads you into exploration of your own characters and plot. This is a plot book for the rest of us, the ones who aren't quite linear in our thinking. Check out the excerpt-- you can order from that page too.And my
Writer's Digest book on Point of View:
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