Here’s guest-blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with a writing tip for generating a scene. When I think of writing a novel, I read the morning newspaper to help me generate and explore quirky ideas, so I can make my characters a little different from the run-of-the mill. It is where my imagination searches for an idea, big or small, […]
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Guides / Guidance to the Hidden Dimension of Life
The Hidden Dimension Deepak Chopra calls it The Hidden Dimension of Life. James Redfield calls it The Responsive Universe. Robert Butler calls it The White Hot Center of The Unconscious. Kabir Helminski calls it the Threshold Between Two Worlds. Janet Conner calls it The Intersection. It’s the dimension outside of the normal five senses where your earthly and […]
Shapes of Fiction /The Iceberg / Silver Flats
For an assignment in my Structure and Style class through UC Davis Extension, we were asked to write a scene, using two shapes of fiction as outlined in Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern: Iceberg and Visitation. Stern’s Iceberg shape of fiction shows how to handle thoughts, dialogue, and action in writing. In this shape, the […]
Two People, One Thought / Methodists Sing
As a warm-up for a lesson on Vantage Points in my Advanced Fiction class at UC Davis Extension, our teacher asked us to do a quick-write about two people sharing one thought. This being a quick-write, I didn’t have much time to mull over character or subject, so I zeroed in on the funeral I had attended the previous […]
Stylish Blogger Award #2
When a person sends a kindness your way, it’s only right that you show your gratitude. So please don’t see this just as an opportunity for me to toot my own horn (which it is, of course), but also as a way to say, “Thank you” to a fellow blogger who chose to honor me with […]
Journal Treasures / Standing in the Doorway
Standing in the Doorway, written January 3, 2000 The door stands open, and as I peek through it, I marvel that such a life does indeed exist. I will not cross the threshold, because if I do, all I care about and those I love will be lost to me forever. With my hand on the door frame, […]
