Write Better Archives - Robert Plamondon's Rural Life https://www.plamondon.com/wp/category/better-writing/ Including Practical Poultry Tips Mon, 23 May 2016 17:48:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 90460172 Unlocking the Plotto Plot Generator https://www.plamondon.com/wp/unlocking-the-plotto-plot-generator/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/unlocking-the-plotto-plot-generator/#respond Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:42:21 +0000 When William Wallace Cook wrote Plotto: A new Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction, his introductory chapter made a lot of readers sit up and ask, “Huh?” So Cook got do work and came up with an instruction booklet in the form of a seven-lesson course on how to use Plotto to … Continue reading "Unlocking the Plotto Plot Generator"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/young-again/feed/ 0 830 Sign Up Now! Great Writing Class in Corvallis https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sign-up-now-great-writing-class-in-corva/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sign-up-now-great-writing-class-in-corva/#respond Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:58:30 +0000 I need your help! I’ve signed up for an exciting writing class in Corvallis, taught by an Emmy-award-winning TV writer/novelist/teacher, Linda E. Hamner. The problem is, if we don’t find two more people by noon on Friday who are keen to learn about writing, it’s going to be canceled! The topic is “Introduction to Screenwriting,” … Continue reading "Sign Up Now! Great Writing Class in Corvallis"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sign-up-now-great-writing-class-in-corva/feed/ 0 821 Sequel to “One Survivor” Underway https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sequel-to-one-survivor-underway/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sequel-to-one-survivor-underway/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:01:31 +0000 Getting my action-packed SF novel (One Survivor) into print got me back into fiction-writing mode, and I’ve been putting in some time on the sequel, Tainted Gold. Not one to hold out on my loyal readers, I’ve posted what I have (the first 80 pages) here. Tainted Gold has many of the same characters as … Continue reading "Sequel to “One Survivor” Underway"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/sequel-to-one-survivor-underway/feed/ 0 716 Writing: The First Hundred Thousand Words are the Hardest https://www.plamondon.com/wp/writing-the-first-hundred-thousand-words/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/writing-the-first-hundred-thousand-words/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:52:58 +0000 I started writing seriously (that is, “for money”) when I was in college. For me, the keys to mastery were: Write a lot. I became much more fluent during the course of my first book, Through Dungeons Deep: A Fantasy Gamers’ Handbook, (Reston Publishing, 1981) which covered how to play Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing … Continue reading "Writing: The First Hundred Thousand Words are the Hardest"

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