Writerly Ways redux

[cornerofmadness]

A side effect of boiling my brain in the sun was to come home and clean my living room like whoa. I turned up several Writer's Digest's that I have yet to read. I had no idea they were doing makeshift 'writers' workshops'. I thought I'd pass along the exercises since so many of us would probably like them. I will be editing a few of them since well some of it is just odd. Here's one

1. Ready over a copy of your latest short story or novel and boil the piece down to a one-sentence summary

2. having done so are there elements of the story that don't appear to contribute to this plot? If so think about what would happen if you cut them

3. if you can't summarize your story in a single sentence consider the following questions. Have I established my protagonize and his desires clearly enough? Do i have more than one plot going? From among them which is the most compelling.

(i wonder what we're meant to do if we feel the subplots ARE important)


so let me sum up Machiavelli Moon. Maddalena and Sulien, two vampires and Caksi, a werewolf policeman have to find out who shot Caksi's brother and is out to kill Sulien and Maddalena.

So...i can do it. And I think I DO need to remove Sulien's daughter from the mix.


Also THANKS to those who inputted on last night's question


ETA _ Awwww RIP Patrick Swayze. Remembers fondly him looking down at me from the posters on the dorm room wall.


















(aiming for a female)



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Comments

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Cool exercises! I need to do that, as soon as I have more stuff loaded on this computer.

How on Earth did you get SEVEN? I tried to breed my green stripe and got two green stripe eggs and it made me put up BOTH of them for adoption because I had FIVE...!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

good luck

i have NO idea. I just tried for the lily pad one and it let me so i kept grabbing

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I guess I just have to try again when I'm "allowed" and see if the same two will produce the same sorts of eggs again.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

you never know with this thing. I've been locked with only three

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

That's not easy, boiling a whole story down to one sentence! Good exercise, though.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no it really isn't. This was the sort of the lamest of the exercises that I thought worth trying. some better ones will be coming