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ARIADNE'S OWL: July 2010
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Friday, July 30, 2010. What is a scene? In short, it's that place in the narrative where something actually happens. A scene is a little story, in and of itself, with a beginning, a middle, and an end—an event that occupies time and space. A scene is sharply focused and generally held together by a single idea, a single driving force. According to Sandra Scofield's The Scene Book. What happens is simple: ...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: February 2011
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Now there's a concept. I've decided to write on my blog again. In fact, I'm trying to get my online "Brand" happening. Yes, it's sad but true, I'm back to marketing my self. Well, maybe it's not so sad, really, the reason I'm back to it, is I've finished my second novel. After three years of work, The Appassionata. The first, composer, Jeanne-Louise Farrenc whose music is being...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: Setting the Scene
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Friday, July 30, 2010. What is a scene? In short, it's that place in the narrative where something actually happens. A scene is a little story, in and of itself, with a beginning, a middle, and an end—an event that occupies time and space. A scene is sharply focused and generally held together by a single idea, a single driving force. According to Sandra Scofield's The Scene Book. What happens is simple: ...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: StoryStalking: Thickening the Plot
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. StoryStalking: Thickening the Plot. Plot: the events that move a story toward some particular effect. There's an old axiom that says, writing "the king died and then the queen died," does not a plot make, but writing, "the king died and then the queen died of grief. Like journalism, it's the who. That matters, and the how. In fact the how. Might be the kicker. How. Off the top of...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: Mendocino Students, English 205
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Mendocino Students, English 205. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How to Build an Owl. 1 Decide you must. 2 Develop deep respect. For feather, bone, claw. 3 Place your trembling thumb. Where the heart will be:. For one hundred hours watch. So you will know. Where to put the first feather. 4 Stay awake forever. When the bird takes shape. Gently pry open its beak. And whisper into it: mouse. 5 Let it go. Followi...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: July 2012
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Wednesday, July 18, 2012. The Day We Celebrate. The Mendocino Beacon, Mendocino, CA. Kelley House Museum Column. The Day We Celebrate. 8212;Dateline: June, 28, 2012. You remember the story, right? Local Pomo tribes people looted the Frolic’s cargo, and when bolts of silk and fine chinaware turned up in trade, San Francisco businessman, Henry Meiggs got curious. He sent Jerome Ford. 8221; That year, news h...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: I'm Back
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Tuesday, February 22, 2011. Now there's a concept. I've decided to write on my blog again. In fact, I'm trying to get my online "Brand" happening. Yes, it's sad but true, I'm back to marketing my self. Well, maybe it's not so sad, really, the reason I'm back to it, is I've finished my second novel. After three years of work, The Appassionata. The first, composer, Jeanne-Louise Farrenc whose music is being...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: June 2012
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Monday, June 18, 2012. The Mendocino Beacon, Mendocino, CA. Kelley House Museum Column. 8212;Dateline: May, 31, 2012. The moon was waning on October 11, 1884, about half-full at the end of a dusty Indian Summer day. It matters, because the. Stage Line in June, didn't know any better. Things got off to a challenging start when the bandits ordered the driver to throw down the Express box. He protested&#...
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ARIADNE'S OWL: August 2010
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Ariadne's Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an experimental teaching site for writers and lovers of words. Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Upcoming Events and Other Good News. On Saturday, August 21st at 7pm. M reading with three other members of the writing group I've been part of for the past two and a half years. We call ourselves, The Usual Suspects. We're reading as part of Mendocino Stories, 7pm at the Mendocino Hotel. I'll be reading an excerpt from The Appassionata. Starting Tuesday, August 26th,. For one hun...