Tag: Story arc

A Writer’s Notebook: The Writer’s Toolbox, sentence sticks

July 16, 2011

So, last week I let Jamie Cat Callan‘s The Writer’s Toolbox help me start a story. It was about John, an architect from Minnesota who is feeling guilty over abandoning his elderly mother in order to stalk the woman he’s secretly in love with. Don’t ask me — the Toolbox came up with this story. But that’s where … More A Writer’s Notebook: The Writer’s Toolbox, sentence sticks

A Writer’s Notebook: The Writer’s Toolbox, Protagonist Game

July 8, 2011

I’m going to do this next Writer’s Notebook exercise in two parts. This weekend, I’m just getting down some basic ideas, and over the coming week, I’ll develop these ideas into a draft and toss it up next Friday. What appears in the Notebook this week are notes from an exercise in Jamie Cat Callan‘s … More A Writer’s Notebook: The Writer’s Toolbox, Protagonist Game