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Wednesday’s Craft: To Prologue . . . or Not to Prologue, That Is the . . .

Dec

2008

Filed in: Musings on Craft | Writing Tags: Prologues | writing craft
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Well, you get the idea. And one of the reasons for that little cliché of an opening is that prologues came to us from drama. Specifically Greek drama – “prologue,” after all is derived from two Greek terms meaning “fore” and “word.” Recently, a friend asked me about the use of prologues in the Love [...]

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The Evolution of a Hero, Part Three (A Writer’s Journey Rabbit Trail)

Oct

2008

Welcome to the early 90s, which the Internet really began to be a part of everyday life. My (now ex) husband and I were early adopters, signing on with CompuServe in the mid-80s. I STILL have hard copies of posts from the CS Literary and Science Fiction forums, where I workshopped a story with Orson [...]

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The Evolution of a Hero, Part Two

Oct

2008

I need to take an aside. I’ll get back to the blonds in a minute. After yesterday’s post, someone asked if I always developed the hero from a celebrity crush. Actually, it’s usually the other way around. The hero is built, then I cast him. For instance, Fletcher MacAllister, the hero of A Murder Among [...]

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