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Questions for your Character10 QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK YOUR CHARACTERQuestions for your Character
How can you write about what a character will do or say if you don't know how they think, or what is "in character" for them? If you're writing from the point of view of one or more of your characters, it's even more important to know them as well as you know yourself. Often, you need to be able to put yourself in a character's place, to get right inside their head to see what they're thinking. One way to do this is to ask them questions. These ten probing questions will get you started.
1) Who are you? Answers to this question can range from simply a name to a deep ex
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Grammar and Style ErrorsExamples of common grammar and stylistic errorsGrammar and Style Errors
(particularly applicable to formal writing, but still potentially relevant in creative writing of any kind).
1. About sentence fragments
2. Don't write a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it.
3. Join clauses good like conjunctions should.
4. Each pronoun agrees with their antecendent.
5. In letters reports articles papers and stuff like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart.
6. Don't use commas, which aren't necessary.
7. Its important to use apostrophe's right.
8.
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Glossary of TermsAlliteration and AssonanceGlossary of Terms
These two terms tackle a truly tedious type of terminology - repetition. Alliteration is the term used to denote the repetition of consonants, as in the previous sentence (repeated snakelike 's' sounds are called sibilants), whereas Assonance refers to 'chiming' or repeated similar vowel sounds; 'anger ran sanguine through him', for example.
Anacoluthon
Anacoluthon is a sentence that lacks grammatical sequence, such as 'while in the garden the chair fell over'.
Anacrusis
Anacrusis is where the beginning of a verse of poetry opens with an unstressed syl
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Workshopping FAQFrequently Asked Questions about Writing WorkshopsWorkshopping FAQ
What are my responsibilities as a workshop reader?
We are all writers at various stages in our work. Unless we are writing in a locked diary, we crave an appreciative audience. So the first thing you can do is be that audience. Be a receptive reader, and let the writer know her manuscript affected you. For example: “I laughed here . . .” “I almost cried when. . . ” “I could just see this . . .” “You made this place come alive” “I identified completely with this person” are all phrases that are appropriate responses to written work. An interpretation of the piece can
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