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Ellen T. McKnight – Page 18 – ~ connecting through story ~

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Ellen T. McKnight. Girl with a Pearl Earring. January 12, 2015. Girl with a Pearl Earring. Penguin Putnam Inc. (New York: 1999). Chevalier has created a credible tale out of the already known by investing this world with enough coarseness and detail to stand for possible truth. For more reading recommendations. January 5, 2015. Farrar Straus Giroux (New York: 1992). For more reading recommendations. Connect, and where fiction almost magically comes to life. Tension in the Telling. Dynamic Tension in Plot.

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Tension in the Telling – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Tension in the Telling. Tension Series Part 6. September 26, 2016. Tension is key to how we bring readers to care about our characters and what happens in our stories. That tension begins with character and gets expressed and magnified in plot, but the way we tell our stories is every bit as important. To complete my series on tension, I’d like to highlight some of the storytelling techniques that may be exploited as part of the overall orchestration of tension. 1 Writing in Scene.

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The Love of a Writer – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. The Love of a Writer. December 14, 2015. How many of us have been so worried about a character that we couldn’t bear to stop reading well past a sane bedtime? Literary or genre fiction, for adults or children, it doesn’t matter: if the character is well crafted, we care. The third and fourth Harry Potter books kept me up for a week. I’m still worried about Theo in. What are you afraid of? Why does that hurt? What do you hope for? At heart, isn’t that why we do this? The Things We Carry.

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Foibles and Fixes – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. January 18, 2016. Creative writing requires recommitment from time to time. 1 You love to write, but can’t think of anything to say. The most common answer to this problem is usually to read. Immersing yourself in great books in your genre will motivate and inspire you. The only difficulty is that sometimes those great books will make you feel more lacking. What could you possibly come up with that hasn’t already been said? 2 You freeze up when faced with an empty page. 4 You revise an...

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Voice is a Verb – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Voice is a Verb. February 15, 2016. Three riddles, all with the same answer: When we talk about inborn talent in writing, what do we mean more often than anything else? What attribute is most likely to make a novel leap off the page? What do many people write entire novels without understanding, despite its centrality and importance to modern fiction? Voice Hard to teach and even harder to learn, except for those writers for whom it seems as natural as breathing. Catcher in the Rye.

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Pushing Your Characters Deeper – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Pushing Your Characters Deeper. September 21, 2015. Characters are tricky. You’d think they’d do whatever you want. You’d think they’d be as easy to write up as a list. Strong but vulnerable, damaged but tries to hide it, wants something (of course), and has to fight for it. Okay, go. In his lectures at Off Campus Writers’ Workshop. Questions, the same as you might ask a loved one in trouble. For example, I like to ask my characters: What are you thinking about? What are you hoping for?

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Get Out to Lean In – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Get Out to Lean In. Takeaways from CWC 2016. November 4, 2016. This week we turned our blog over to CWC2016 attendee Ellen T. McKnight, a fiction writer published in literary journals and currently at work on a novel. She teaches writing workshops and hosts a blog about writing called Connecting through Story. Follow her on Twitter @EllenTMcKnight. For more of my guest post on the CWC blog, please click. This is default footer data. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).

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Making a Moment Count – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Making a Moment Count. April 20, 2015. Bring up the music, cue the lights, zoom in the camera. 1 Rhythm and Beat. In the Brain, Silent Reading is the Same as Talking to Yourself. 2 Time and Details. More than anything else, remember to listen as you write. Listen and trust your ear. Photo courtesy of woodleywonderworks. Via a Creative Commons License. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Pitch with Irony and Heart. Dynamic T...

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Tension Requires Release – Ellen T. McKnight

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Ellen T. McKnight. Tension Series Part 5. August 15, 2016. Tension in fiction keeps us reading because we crave resolution. Too much, too soon, and readers may not bother to finish. Too little, too late, and readers may get annoyed. The art of storytelling is all about building tension while allowing just the right amount of release, until a climax in which the most significant tensions reach their zenith and then get resolved. The release of tension is especially important in six key areas:. The basic t...