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Writer's tips

       Writer's tips in Global Dig


1.When writing an historical novel you have to think of every last detail of truth even down to a spy character taking a casual picture with a tourist and the possible change in the spy's future from taking that picture.  You have to think of the things like whether certain trains would have been running in that time period and what would have been their routes or if the empire state building could have been seen from the distance that you had that character see it.


2.In a story, even a minor character's exchanges need to be specific.  You can't just say the tickets were given if there was no one in the scene to give the tickets.


3.  Body language in a scene is very important with a memorable character.  A character's actions need to be over emphasized on the paper whether its their reaction to another character's words or their drastic movements.

Total lack of awareness

   

A poem

Total lack of awareness, stuck on the methadone.

She was totally unaware.

If she asked everyone in the library for a piece of gum  it was fine.

With her she spoke so load that the folks with the headphones could hear her.  She was unaware.  She didn't care.

She hit down on the computer keys with her manicured nails to the annoyance of the librarians whose shush-shushing noises began a cadence of music and sound.  

Tennant home

   

A Three Minute Free Write

"What a pigsty!"I say.  "Not nearly what I expected."  

This is a woman who clamored down on her tenant for wiping a single hand print on her pure white washed walls.  A woman who wrote passive aggressive post-it notes  on the bathroom mirror.  A woman whom if you passed gas without spraying you were in very deep s#i%.  Or if you left your leftovers in the refrigerator she'd start fumigating the kitchen.  Her tenant's home was immaculate:   rodent free floors with rodent free walls, rodent free pipes and rodent free walls. 

And the landlord's own home was filled with dirty laundry, basket upon basket.  A hoarder's dream.  The kitchen was filled with pop cans, bag upon bag, waiting for the collector's to give her a dollar.  Was it worth it? I asked.  She'd collect the pop cans at work, a book club, at her nearest grocery store.  Are you done with that?  She'd scoop up the can from the patron's hand, throw it in her recycled bag for safe keeping while her home was collecting.

Hannah Hung, Food Writer

Hannah Hung, a food writer writes on average 3-4 restaurant reviews a day with a total accumulated 1,373 restaurant reviews last year alone!  Her reviews are posted on yelp.com and here's a comment that she wrote on Nando's Peri-Peri restaurant We decided to dine-in (loved the colorful decor, with the cyan-ish lampshades and the awesome art pieces on the wall). All of her posts are at least 300 words long which puts most food writers to shame. Check her out at Hannah Hung  

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Roosevelt High School, Minnesota

Writers tips

1.Don’t go straight out and tell what the profession of a character is but let their profession be slowly revealed.  The reader will figure it out.

2.Think closely about what the story is about.  Is it about an idea? Or is about a single character? If it’s about an idea each character should be revealing that idea in their dialogue and actions.

3.Be careful of wordage in your writing like using  “had” too much.  It takes away from the intensity of the plot.  Example of a wordy sentence is: It took all afternoon.

4.When your writing about a tense situation, you need to show more emotion throughout the section.

 4.Moral decisions, good or bad, need to be consistent throughout a book to make the character believable.

      












Writing Prompt:
Capture Life's Memories

Do I capture them with a camera
OR with my facebook App?
I'm not sure which memomies will do.
I'm not sure which Mark Zuckerberg will approve of.


South Minneapolis

      


We come to cut the grass:Unlikely things I will never do:

I won't become a Champlain so that I can pick up dirty diapers and heroine syringes off the church parking lot.
I won't shovel snow for the same reason either.
 I won't be an ear doctor for an ear load of crap or pick out some one's dirty dentures.
 No I won't play an accordion for a arm load of stone deaf seniors.
 I can't do that and I won't.

There are some things we can't imagine other professionals doing.

Do lawyers have to listen to lies from shady-old-two timers who secretly sell crack?
Do catholic preachers secretly take naps in the confession corners while confessors are picking their teeth?
Are those garbage drivers secretly hitting it off with dumpster divers? 

How to Eat a Cupcake

      


I'm reading this novel called How to Eat a Cupcake by Meg Donohue and there is a really great section where a woman asked her fiancé to picture their lifetime together.  I attached that great section below:




I see brunches and the Sunday Times.  I see us butting heads over the current state of world affairs and enthusiastically creatively making up all over the house.  I see myself dragging you to a lot of movies starring Will Ferrell, and I see you dragging me to a lot of movies that involve more reading than watching.  I see myself pillaging your brilliant brain time and time again for answers to any number of business conundrums that I'll face along the way of building this company.  I see us traveling-scuba in the Galapagos, island hopping off the coast of Croatia, eating our way through Asia.

      

 
A Short Story called:
Question of the Week

"Can I help you?" said the service lady
"Oh yeah. I got this Rug." Shirley said.
"So I see."
Shirley lifts up a flowered rug scrubbed dirty with yellow curry lentils, peppers and tomatoes.  The service lady nodded. 
She seen it all.  The putrid and the bare.  The vomit colored laundry, the Saturday after a Friday night next to an Indian restaurant.  And she had to bare it all.  Shaking her head, the service lady pointed to the gigantic tumbler which was big enough for a bike, a large storage rack and a few other miscellaneous items.

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    I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffle ball bat  
I clowned ya, I shot ya
ya turned, I got ya