Thread: Exposition vs. dialogue...

Hi JAA, thanks for your (first!) post, and suggestions. I don't think the situation is presented in the novel as being analagous to domestic abuse. Char A is acting from an ultimately noble cause, but is prepared to cut moral corners. I don't mind the reader having a negative reaction to him - C certainly does, and she's a main character (B is more ambivalent; in a way he becomes a victim who excuses his abuser, something that...

Quote: Originally Posted by knivesout the fact is that each rejection is in effect an expert telling me that my work is not fit for public consumption. No . The fact is that someone -- who may well be going through his or her own bad day -- did not feel he/she could use it. There's a world of difference. If you're submitting short stories, it could be as simple as they have no room in the magazine for the foreseeable future. But...

Knives: How about you exploit that substantial depressive energy into something productive. Like writing a dark, dangerous, intense action-adventure-warrior tale? Or maybe something about a frustrated, not-so-successful writer ( ) who got caught up in a global web of intrigue, like, one involving an international spy ring, or maybe a human trafficking network. In 1976, after being diagnosed with a cancer he believed to be terminal, David...

Yeah. Apparently it was the only thing that could get him right into the zone.

Thnx ctg, i am now listening to ambiant, top-o'-the-class....... Steve

Quote: Originally Posted by dreamhunter How about you exploit that substantial depressive energy into something productive You have depression confused with something else -- anger, perhaps. There is an immense difference between the kind of reaction you describe and depression, and misconceptions can be dangerous. Depression almost always saps energy. It can absolutely flatten you. Being told to do something productive during that period can...

Apparently, there are 32 compass points (each of them 11.25 degrees from its nearest neighbours): Boxing the compass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia One of them isn't North by Northwest , which you may know as a film title.

Re: Are you a night writer or a day writer. On my short writing course, I have a CD with interviews with different writers and most of them say the best time to write is in the morning. I tried and tried this and I just can't do it. I usually get up, browse the net for a bit, If I try to write I get nowhere. Any time in the rest of the day as long as it's quiet I can write. At home, at work etc.

Not normally, but lately I've been doing most of my writing at work, and I'd really get noticed if pulled out my iPod while I was doing it! I have done in the past, if there's a particular piece of musuic that fits the mood of my piece. Has to be instrumental, though. Usually film scores or classical...

I maybe slightly different here, in the fact that if i get a rejection slip; and i have had a couple now. That it makes me even more determined to continue my search for an agent or a publisher that will accept it. In that respect i'm a bit like a bloodhound, i'll never, ever quit, ever.