Comments on: On Those Pesky Powerful Emotional Experiences http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/ America's Mad Professor of Fiction Writing Wed, 16 May 2012 16:54:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Val Clark http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9184 Val Clark Sun, 30 May 2010 21:18:39 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9184 It's a pain living so far away from conferences that you present at, Randy. Have you, or your agent (?), thought about riding on the back of the Dummies book and doing workshops at the writers' festivals in Australia's capital cities? (Sydney's is usually in May/June) Then maybe extending that to some of the regional areas - like little old Dubbo where I have relocated to? Maybe FaithWriters in Sydney could ride on the back of that with a mini conference. Just thinking aloud. (Have nagged Margie about this as well.) I use the PEE and the MRU (duly acknowledged)in my teaching and find them valuable tools. I always use examples from my own writing - so it pushes me to get it right. Thanks also for the heads up with an editor who is sympatico with your methods. :-) It’s a pain living so far away from conferences that you present at, Randy. Have you, or your agent (?), thought about riding on the back of the Dummies book and doing workshops at the writers’ festivals in Australia’s capital cities? (Sydney’s is usually in May/June) Then maybe extending that to some of the regional areas - like little old Dubbo where I have relocated to? Maybe FaithWriters in Sydney could ride on the back of that with a mini conference. Just thinking aloud. (Have nagged Margie about this as well.) I use the PEE and the MRU (duly acknowledged)in my teaching and find them valuable tools. I always use examples from my own writing - so it pushes me to get it right. Thanks also for the heads up with an editor who is sympatico with your methods. :-)

]]> By: Phoebe Wilcox http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9208 Phoebe Wilcox Mon, 31 May 2010 22:51:31 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9208 I think I have to pee. Sorry, I couldn't help saying it! And I'm feeling so rebellious today because of the unrelenting heat that I feel like challenging myself to write a story with a really bland, neutral unintersting main character who is doing basically nothing, but who somehow still manages to evoke an intense response in the reader. If I come up with something amazing, I'll publish it and list it on my website. But honestly, I'm really going to try that, as harebrained as it sounds! I think I have to pee. Sorry, I couldn’t help saying it! And I’m feeling so rebellious today because of the unrelenting heat that I feel like challenging myself to write a story with a really bland, neutral unintersting main character who is doing basically nothing, but who somehow still manages to evoke an intense response in the reader. If I come up with something amazing, I’ll publish it and list it on my website. But honestly, I’m really going to try that, as harebrained as it sounds!

]]> By: Andrea http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9232 Andrea Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:44:00 +0000 http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/blog/2010/05/29/on-those-pesky-powerful-emotional-experiences/#comment-9232 Donald Maass puts it a little differently. He opines, "Conflict on every page." When I heard this advice, I thought but what about light whimsical humor like PG Wodehouse? But then I perused my many novels and low and behold, he does have conflict on every page. Bad aunts, friends, Jeeves all giving him a hard time at every turn but subtly. Lesson learned. Conflict can be many things, it doesn't have to be obvious, like a bad guy putting a gun to the head of your protag. Donald Maass puts it a little differently. He opines, “Conflict on every page.”

When I heard this advice, I thought but what about light whimsical humor like PG Wodehouse? But then I perused my many novels and low and behold, he does have conflict on every page. Bad aunts, friends, Jeeves all giving him a hard time at every turn but subtly.

Lesson learned. Conflict can be many things, it doesn’t have to be obvious, like a bad guy putting a gun to the head of your protag.

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