A few good links
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musingaloudA few lookies:
May I direct you to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maryrobinette 's journal? Two posts there I think you'll find very informative.
The first: Changing the Opening Line A post about revising and moving an opening line that changes the reader's perceived emphasis of the story.
The second: The Shades of Milk and Honey style sheet The Shades of Milk and Honey is her upcoming novel. I mean, who knew there were style sheets? Well, obviously I didn't. You can download her style sheet to see what an honest to goodness real one looks like.
From there, I suggest going over to the said copy editor's page, Deanna Hoak to read an interesting entry explaining just what a style sheet is and what items of importance she looks for when making one. Brings up an interesting point about keeping track of character names, spellings, and all, and a possible easy way to do it in one's own work.
From there, I suggest theodysseyworkshop with a post on Character Arc. This is one of the ideas I've been trying to get straight in my own mind and my writing agenda, paying close attention to it as opposed to letting it happen by chance (or not happen, as the case may be, resulting in a flat story). This post is an interview with Odyssey graduates on how they create character arcs in their own reading. And by the way, did you know you can download podcasts from the Odyssey Workshop guest lecturers from the Odyssey site? Or, here on their LiveJournal page I'm still trying to find time to actually *listen* to them, of course. If I'd use one of my ten brain cells, I could probably figure out that I can put them on a CD (no I do not have an iphone or a ipod or anything like that) and listen to them in the car.
May I direct you to
maryrobinette 's journal? Two posts there I think you'll find very informative.The first: Changing the Opening Line A post about revising and moving an opening line that changes the reader's perceived emphasis of the story.
The second: The Shades of Milk and Honey style sheet The Shades of Milk and Honey is her upcoming novel. I mean, who knew there were style sheets? Well, obviously I didn't. You can download her style sheet to see what an honest to goodness real one looks like.
From there, I suggest going over to the said copy editor's page, Deanna Hoak to read an interesting entry explaining just what a style sheet is and what items of importance she looks for when making one. Brings up an interesting point about keeping track of character names, spellings, and all, and a possible easy way to do it in one's own work.
From there, I suggest the
odysseyworkshop with a post on Character Arc. This is one of the ideas I've been trying to get straight in my own mind and my writing agenda, paying close attention to it as opposed to letting it happen by chance (or not happen, as the case may be, resulting in a flat story). This post is an interview with Odyssey graduates on how they create character arcs in their own reading. And by the way, did you know you can download podcasts from the Odyssey Workshop guest lecturers from the Odyssey site? Or, here on their LiveJournal page I'm still trying to find time to actually *listen* to them, of course. If I'd use one of my ten brain cells, I could probably figure out that I can put them on a CD (no I do not have an iphone or a ipod or anything like that) and listen to them in the car. 
