Too Many Ideas - Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category
Noir Fairy Tale Passes 30k
Monday, December 4th, 2006My Noir Fairy Tale past thirty thousand words after a sticky start thanks to a little advice from Raymond Chandler – "When in doubt have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."
How I Write
Thursday, November 30th, 2006I’ve tried various methods of writing fiction. From the obscure snowflake method to the well known (and probably overdone) heroes journey. I was reading a post on John Rogers Kung Fu Monkey blog Writing: The Knuckleball and it made me think about the method I come back to time and again that grew out of […]
Characters on the Couch
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006I really need to come up with something else to blog about on Wednesday’s. Honest I will. For next week. Really. Until then though I’ve put up a PDF of the complete Characters on the Couch on the all new impworks On Writing page.
Characters on the Couch (Part 18)
Thursday, November 16th, 2006There really isn’t a part 19 but I thought I’d finish up with a list of all the parts. Introduction Drivers The Ruler Archetype The Creator Archetype The Care Giver Archetype The Jester Archetype The Regular Guy/Gal Archetype The Lover Archetype The Hero Archetype The Outlaw Archetype The Magician Archetype The Innocent Archetype The Explorer […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 17)
Thursday, November 9th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 16). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) Born in 1875 Jung (pronounced young) was trained in medicine in Basel. His early years of practice were at the BurghÅ¡lzli Mental Hospital in Zurich. He was influenced […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 16)
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 15). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). Five Steps to Use Your Character’s Archetype This simple process may help you use the idea of archetypes when writing a character. Step 1: Search for your Character’s Soul Think about your […]
Death Scene Monologue and Keats
Monday, October 30th, 2006In the process of bumping off a minor character in the Fairy Tale Noir I decided he deserved a bit of a monologue before he goes. However he’s both a bit of a geek and has a bad habbit of wandering way off the point. So he wanders and I needed to do some research […]
Characters on the Couch (Part 15)
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006This Follows on from: Characters on the Couch (Part 14). The first part can be found at: Characters on the Couch (Part 1). So why use Archetypes? As a writer there are several advantages to using archetypes when designing characters. Archetypes give characters personalities that readers can easily identify with. They make characters memorable by […]
Never let you're Characters off the Leash
Monday, October 23rd, 2006So I’ve been crafting the info dump in the Noir Fairy Tale. It was coming together pretty easily. The main character dumping info is a bit of a scatter brain. He keeps wandering off the point, shinning light into bits of the story he isn’t being asked about. Then out of nowhere he showed speaks […]
Too Info Dump or Not to Info Dump that is the question
Monday, October 23rd, 2006I’ve been struggling to decide how to handle the next step in the Noir Fairy Tail. The main character has made a trip from China to Britain to enlist an experts help. I could have the expert mysterious solve the heroes problem so he can carry on with the action in what would be a […]