So You Want to Write a Story: Where Does Your Story Take Place?
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
The setting of a novel addresses where the story takes place, location, but also the time period wherein the change of events occurs.
Setting and time period are important dimensions to a story. In many stories they act as additional characters.
Tags: antagonist, Beloved, desires, emotions, goals, haunting, house, narrative line, plot, point of view, protagonist, research, Sethe, setting, supporting characters, Toni Morrison
Editing: How Important is It?
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Very.
And yet this is a place where writers from all genres agree to disagree, as was the case today on AAMBC Radio where the topic was, “How Important is Editing?”
I encourage all writers and novices of the craft to listen to or download the broadcast.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AAMBC/2009/05/02/Panel-Discussion-How-important-is-Editing
It would seem that quality editing is not a problem for [...]
Tags: AAMBC, craft, editor, Einstein, fiction, novels, publishing, short stories, Tamika Newhouse, Toni Morrison, writing
2009 Orange Prize novel offered as a Free Download
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
A novel that was yesterday shortlisted for the Orange Prize will be made available as a free download for a day.
Burnt Shadows is being offered to anyone who wishes to download it by the publisher Bloomsbury.
The book by Kamila Shamsie, a Pakistani-born author who now lives in London, concerns Hiroko Tanaka, a survivor of the [...]
Tags: A Mercy, Bloomsbury, Britain, Broken Verses, Burnt Shadows, City By the Sea, digital download, Hamilton College, J. K. Rowling, Jack Malvern, Kamila Shamsie, Kartography, Khaled Hosseini, Orange Prize, Salt and Saffron, Samantha Harvey, Times, Toni Morrison, U Mass Amherts, UK
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