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3. NEW FEATURE: WRITERS' REMEMBRANCES
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4. READING GROUP: THE ARTIST'S WAY
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January, and we'd love to see you there! The
beauty of doing it this way is that even if you
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and join right in! We welcome any and all of you
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5. COMING SOON!
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-- Writers Remember is working on a section
filled with explanations of terms used often in
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you!
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-- Julia Temlyn, Editor-in-Chief of Writers
Remember, is working on an e-book full of
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6. ARTICLE: When the Sun Stops Shining, by Diane
Penna
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Here at Writer’s Remember we aim to provide
information that inspires, uplifts, and
encourages writers. There is no greater time to
receive assurance of ourselves, and our writing,
than when we are depressed, grieving, or
otherwise hurting. With up to 70% of writers
suffering from depressive disorders, it is
important to keep the writing community aware of
our propensity to pull into our shell, and
provide realistic advice on how to pull
ourselves back out and into our writing.
Writing this article happens to be timely for
me. Over the last two weeks, I have lost my two
precious cats. As any pet owner knows, animals
are like babies. They love you unconditionally,
provide companionship, and are cute as buttons!
When a writer’s day is interspersed with time
spent with those companions, it can get very
lonely indeed when they are gone. When grieving,
such as I have been, it is very tempting to just
throw everything on the back burner and remain
curled up in your bed and under your sheets,
with the laptop collecting dust.
When you are down and in despair, there are a
few things you can do to keep your pen flowing
and your words reverberating in the minds of
your readers.
Continue reading here...
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7. ARTICLE: You Call That Art?, by Kevin
Kilgarriff
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In my office there hangs a painting. I didn't
pick it. It was there when I moved in. But in my
opinion, it's about as ugly a piece of art as
you could ever hope to get a frame around. It’s
been in my office for a few years! But it wasn't
until today that I actually looked at it and
thought about it, less in terms of its sheer
amount of ugh, but more in terms of its history.
Someone took the time to put it on a canvas,
looked at it, even if it was only for a brief
moment, and thought, "You know what? That is a
nice painting! I'm going to have prints made of
it and sell it." And then the process went a
step further. Some poor-tasted person who
decorated my office years before me, saw it in a
store and thought, "Hmmm, that's a pretty nice
painting. I think I'll hang it in my office!"
Now to avoid offending the artist who took the
time to put his brush to canvas and create
this... work, I won't describe it. With my luck
he'll read this and begin an all out offensive
on the writings of Kevin Kilgarriff. And do you
know what? He'd have every right to do so.
Because when it comes down to it, one man's
trash is another man's treasure. And people have
every right to dislike someone’s writing... or
art.
Continue reading here...
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8. ARTICLE: My Inner Critter, by Gary Hibberd
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How do you see your ‘writer's block’? Is it a
‘thing’ that sits on your shoulder? An abstract
emotion that prevents you from writing or a real
entity that goads you and pokes fun at you when
you’re sitting looking at an empty page?
Personally speaking my ‘writers block’ is a
voice that mocks my writing, telling me that my
story isn’t up to scratch and telling me that no
matter what happens, even if I finish it, people
won’t enjoy it and will laugh. I thought he
wasn’t a very nice character until I started to
talk to him (please don’t think I’ve gone mad
here. Stick with me on this).
Sitting in the quiet of the night in front of a
glowing white, empty screen, my writers-block
asked me what I was doing.
“I need to write an essay for a new site I’ve
just joined,” I told him rather curtly.
“You don’t have any ideas though,” he responded
sadly. I shrugged and kept on looking at the
screen hoping inspiration would rise out of the
depths. But it didn’t.
Continue reading here...
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9. ARTICLE: Where Are We, Gomer?, by Barbara
Deming
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I’m not going to discuss how the writers came up
with the town of Mayberry, but I will discuss
the problem of setting. Yes, I said problem, as
that is what it can be if the author overlooks
this important part of storytelling. It is so
important that I feel you should treat setting
as another character.
The author can’t ignore the setting. It is an
integral part of the story; in fact, it is hard
to think of separating the two. The setting adds
a sense of reality to your readers, a dimension
that, even if an imaginary one, makes the reader
believe there is such a place. An author I know
writes science fiction and has to build her
setting from the ground up. She has managed to
make me enjoy this genre (although I usually am
not a fan) because her newly discovered planet
is believable. Think how much easier a writer of
mainstream fiction, romance, or mysteries has it
when she/he uses a real town, or one based on
any town USA.
We want the most vivid depiction of setting
possible but we don’t want to put in so much
detail that we bore our readers. What are some
of the ways we can do this?
Continue reading here...
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