by Avery White | Feb 28, 2018 | Training
Lisa’s next mandate is to come up with a “thumbnail sketch” of our protag. If you want the nitty gritty on what should go into that then go buy her book here (I’m on chapter 4, and it’s still good :). Still curious if this novel method...
by Avery White | Feb 19, 2018 | Training
The consequence of doing things live… Haha so I’ve never written a blog post live before. This feels completely different than if I were writing it without you guys looking over my shoulder 🙂 In the previous two parts I went through Lisa’s method of generating a...
by Avery White | Feb 16, 2018 | Training
Step 2: Why do I care? So in Part 1 I got a super basic pinprick of an idea jotted down. Now, per the STORY GENIUS method, I need to answer this ‘why do I care’ question. Lisa (Cron…the author of the book we’re following along with) went to...
by Avery White | Feb 12, 2018 | Training
Yikes… Aside form the fact that this post has a crazy long title, and that I’m on my second (or third?) cup of coffee, I was struck with an idea: what if I wrote the next TPC story live? All of you guys (presumably) like reading stories, so why not show...
by Avery White | Feb 5, 2018 | Training
I read once that good writing is the product of 2% effort and 98% not getting distracted by the Internet. In part, I think this is true. Social media, favorite websites, and a ticker tape news-feed provide enough noise on the channel to drown out creative reception....
by Avery White | Jan 31, 2018 | Stories
“We have a problem,” Eli whispered with the door shut behind him. Lucas stood carrying two bags of what looked like Chinese take-out, but the smell of doner kebab and mazgouf destroyed the notion outright. “Mice?” “Bigger,” Eli failed to articulate. “Vats?” “No! They...
by Avery White | Jan 22, 2018 | Stories
“How long do we honestly need to wait here?” Eli asked, desperate for a straight answer. “Long enough for whoever spent ze last zree weeks looking for us to let zeir guard down. Besides, we needed to kill time for zose zentrifuges to arrive.” Eli was only paying...
by Avery White | Jan 15, 2018 | Challenges
…maybe that’s a little dramatic. But here in Thailand, I use Google Translate a lot. And in that use, I’ve noticed that the longer the sentence, the less accurate the translation. In fact, I frequently find myself summarizing my thoughts down to a single word so...
by Avery White | Jan 12, 2018 | Stories
“You’ve got somebody that knows who you are, isn’t connected to us, but still on our side. Somebody easy to get to, but quiet,” Lucas finished as if going any further would be superfluous. “Meaning?” “You’ve got somebody paid off.” Lucas turned back onto the freeway...
by Avery White | Jan 10, 2018 | Meta
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