Writing Advice Archives - Hunter Valley Writers https://huntervalleywriters.com/tag/writing-advice/ Spread the word Wed, 04 Dec 2019 07:34:26 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/huntervalleywriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-hvw-square.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Writing Advice Archives - Hunter Valley Writers https://huntervalleywriters.com/tag/writing-advice/ 32 32 157067554 Philip Pullman on Stories https://huntervalleywriters.com/2019/12/03/philip-pullman-on-stories/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 05:50:03 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=712 Stories have to begin. Out of the welter of events and ideas and pictures and characters and voices that you experience in your head, you the storyteller must choose the start. You could begin anywhere in the chronology, of course; ...

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]]> 712 On plotting and planning https://huntervalleywriters.com/2019/03/24/on-plotting-and-planning/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 03:32:29 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=388 I am having a hard time with the book. Have enough paper written to make it complete, but must do all over again. I just didn’t know where I was going and when I got there I saw that I ...

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]]> 388 A story is like a house https://huntervalleywriters.com/2019/02/18/a-story-is-like-a-house/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:16:06 +0000 https://huntervalleywriters.com/?p=365 “A story is not like a road to follow … it’s more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors ...

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