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Half of writing is craft, just as half of custom furniture building is understanding dovetails


USING ZOOM MORE AND ENJOYING IT
Here's Some Hints on Improving Hybrid Zooms Or Google Meet, WebEx, and Jitsi As writers circles become less local and more connected...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 82 min read
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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences, WRAPUP
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 5 Broken By Its Own Weight Loose Sentences That Break Under Their Own Weight: This set of examples is...
Scott Archer Jones
Jun 12 min read
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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 4 Take Five Minutes to Fall Off A Cliff Subordinate trailing clauses with past participles and past...
Scott Archer Jones
May 181 min read
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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 3 Outfox Your Bad Writing -- Focus on The Sentence Introductory Clauses with infinite (“ing”) verbs:...
Scott Archer Jones
May 111 min read
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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: # 2 Hemingway Throwing A Baseball in a Bar The Three Beat Drum: Think you’re Hemingway? Live for short...
Scott Archer Jones
May 43 min read
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A Quick Craft Series On Sentences
Those Awkward Clumsy Sentences: #1 The Passive Voice: Your goat wrecked my garden – versus – My garden was wrecked by your goat. Ready...
Scott Archer Jones
Apr 271 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, New Ground
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 92 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, # 8
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Mar 21 min read
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Requiem For A Humble Man, Part 2
See here for Part 1 Living On The Mountain ... When Vietnam had done filling him up with long-term poisons, Dave Ambrose came home to own...
ohjammer
Feb 272 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a Concrete Example, #7
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process, click here to see Alice...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 232 min read
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Showing Point of View Through a Concrete EXample, #6
Craftier and Craftier In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in this process,...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 162 min read
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Showing Point of View Through a Concrete Example, #5
Third Person Point of View - the most used -> But there are three kinds.
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 92 min read
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Showing point of view through a concrete example, #4
It All Depends On Your Point of View In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View. If you want to see the first step in...
Scott Archer Jones
Feb 22 min read
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showing point of view through a concrete example, #3
In a series of craft notes, we’re illustrating Point of View
Scott Archer Jones
Jan 262 min read
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Showing Point Of View through a concrete example
I’m going to use an example that casts all the points of view that I know of, since seeing the real thing is mostly better than just...
ohjammer
Jan 123 min read
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Heartily Recommend Cully Perlman's Blog on Writing and Craft: A Weekly Inspiration
Finding a source of inspiration and practical guidance in the world of writing and writer's craft can feel like searching for a needle in...
ohjammer
Dec 29, 20241 min read
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