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Imogen |
Sep 22 2003, 06:34 AM
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I'll muse on it a bit today at work. I think mood might be a good one to kick off with. Percival's been brilliant at posting odd words for us to do free writing from but I've been remarkably sloppy at keeping up with her. I think we might need to reinstate that as well. Got to run - about to be late for work! Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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Yolanda |
Sep 24 2003, 02:26 PM
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Here are some that might be good (remember, I didn't get a literature degree, so I don't always know the terms)
1. Writing in first person: good, bad? One of my favorite authors, Kazuo Ishiguro always writes in first person. (He wrote Remains of the Day.) 2. How to avoid using the narrator voice too much. In other words, showing something rather then telling it.
3. How many different points of view should you have in one story.
4. Dialogue.
I'd like to participate, although I may not be able to that often because of family obligations.
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"I never thought I'd see the day. Abby, do you mean to tell me that Severus Snape's son is taken with Harry Potter's daughter? Hasn't there been enough evil in this world for one lifetime?"
Sirius Black in Unicorn Girl.
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Imogen |
Sep 24 2003, 06:42 PM
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I think what I'll do is set up a separate forum for this, and post a chatroom/Yahoo group chat link in that. My idea was to have extracts from an assortment of novels posted in a forum for people to look at and discuss with a particular focus. Maybe with a few questions to begin with. We can do that in the week to ten days before the workshop. Then I was pondering about a chat session where we can really work on the skills. I could post that on the boards afterwards, so even people who can't go can see what we've done. Then a follow up posting of our own writing, so that people can comment on it. Hopefully that would be in a supportive, critique sort of way, so we can all grow and learn from what we've been trying. That was the threefold thing I was thinking of... Although I'm willing to take on board all suggestions. Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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Imogen |
Oct 3 2003, 06:08 AM
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I'm going to get this set up as soon as we've switched server and look at having the first 'live' session towards the end of October. I'll post extracts for discussion the week or so before that. What times are going to be best for people? I know we've got a massive range of timezones so I don't mind doing it twice. Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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Imogen |
Oct 4 2003, 07:41 AM
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I don't mind weekends or evenings. I'm in the UK as well, so the only thing that's really ruled out are American evenings because I'm asleep! Although, having said that, James Bow is keen to get involved so maybe we'd be able to do two sessions between us, or something like that. I need to chat to him really! I think on the whole that weekends would be slightly easier, or Friday nights. Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?” . ~ A Pensieve Affair ~ Now being posted...
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