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Hello all!
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Welcome to our Friday After
Hours.
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I'll begin with some good news
for many of you.
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If you used the ichat plug in
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(And I am SO glad to be using
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Click on the Security tab...
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You can then add the URL for
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You will be permitted to use
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Here's the URL for the entry:
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http://www.longridgewritersgroup.com:4080/chat/world/html/login.html
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You need the entire thing,
http: et al.
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That actually may allow some
of you who could not use ichat before to use it now.
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It only applies to this
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Well, service announcement out
of the way...
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welcome to our Friday After
Hours forum!
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mary rosenblum
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I didn't quite have to feed my
sheep from a boat today, but maybe by morning...
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor and we're talking about using
prose to create dramatic variation. I've published seven novels (number
eight will be out next year) , more than 60 short stories, and will do my
best to answer any questions you have. If you're new here, remember that
you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the 'word bubble' next
to the red question mark at the top of the screen in order to ask a
question. Your regular 'send' bar won't reach me! Or you can use /ask and
type your question into the regular send bar if that works better for you..
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I wanted to talk about
creating dramatic ebb and flow with words, since a lack of dramatic
variation...
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is a common problem with
novice fiction and nonfiction, too, at times.
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A lot of novice writers assume
they need events to create drama...a swordfight...
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a chase scene.
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But you can create drama in a
company meeting where not a voice is raised.
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mary rosenblum
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You have a number of technique
options for changing the tension level in your scene.
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mary rosenblum
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You can use events of
course...
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But events can seem 'flat' if
your prose makes them flat.
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I have read many stories where
the climax scene that should have had readers...
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on the edges of their
seats...made us all yawn instead and seemed to drag interminably on...
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never mind that the main character
balanced between life and death.
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One of the biggest myths of
all of us when we first begin to write...
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is that content is everything.
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Far from it.
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It's simply part of the whole.
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The words you use can increase
tension, suspence, and drama...
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or they can flatten tension,
suspence, and drama.
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Lots of words and large,
complex words tend to reduce tension and slow the pace of a scene.
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It may be a sword fight or a
dramatic chase, but if the language is complex, elaborate, and loaded with
descriptives...
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it will have the feel of
a walk in the park.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor and we're talking about using
prose to create dramatic variation. I've published seven novels (number
eight will be out next year) , more than 60 short stories, and will do my
best to answer any questions you have. If you're new here, remember that
you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the 'word bubble' next
to the red question mark at the top of the screen in order to ask a
question. Your regular 'send' bar won't reach me! Or you can use /ask and
type your question into the regular send bar if that works better for you..
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mary rosenblum
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The same scene, using short,
tight, even choppy sentences...
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will have a much stronger
scene of action, violence, fear, rage...stronger emotions.
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Pace and tension tend to
increase as description decreases.
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mary rosenblum
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Now that does not mean that if
you simply strip all the adjectives out of your scene...
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you will have a strong and
dramatic scene! :-)
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You may simply have a totally
barren and utterly boring scene!
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The language affects the
content....if you have two people strolling in the forest on a nice day...
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removing all the description
won't make it feel tense or dangerous.
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But if they are running through
the woods escaping the evil wizard's troops, that lack of description and
tight langauge....
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will increase the tension and
make it much more believable to the reader.
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info
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what if you have a few scenes
that you few are important to the story but feel maybe slow or on the
boring side and yet the reader needs to know what the mc is feeling or
thinking
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mary rosenblum
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Great example, info. This is
where you use your words to make the scene feel dramatiic to the reader.
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mary rosenblum
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any chance you could give me
an example from your story?
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mary rosenblum
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You don't have to cut and
paste it....just a rough idea of the scene will work.
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info
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a teenager is being shown around
a group home....all she wants to do is escape and be left alone and sees
that may not be possible
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Oh, good one, info.
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mary rosenblum
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Okay, let's think about how to
do this scene.
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What do we want the reader to
get here?
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We want the reader to share
the POV's feelings about the home...her desperate desire to get out of here
and be left alone.
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t green
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want the reader to see the
crowded conditions
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Okay...POV"s distress,
the conditions...and of course, we're going to do the visuals filtered
through the POV's own feelings...
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the place looks AWFUL to her.
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megger
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How about some evil stares from
other teens
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t green
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want the reader to get a sense
of being trapped
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Yep,
trapped....claustrophobic, walls closing in, kids staring, ugly looks...
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xana
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Have person showing home
describe while POV feels and thinks
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mary rosenblum
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Could do, but if we're in the
POV's head...we are looking through her eyes...we can see for ourselves...
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and the person showing her
around is just yammering, to our POV's ears.
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beirdd
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and a nasty smell - cloying,
oppressive
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mary rosenblum
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Good...let's see if we can get
all of the senses in here.
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janecj333
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that the teen has no
understanding of her own mental illness, its danger
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Yes...and that's always a
tricky one, jane. Making the person who does not know he/she is mentally
ill reveal it to us realistically.
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cosmos
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maybe POV character recognizes a
bully from school and now trouble is certain.
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megger
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How about kids yelling at staff
in the background?
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Yes!
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These are all good!
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This is exactly the kind of
thing I do before I write a scene like that...
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I come up with ALL the details
I can possibly think of.
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But of coursek, if we put them
all in here...
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our scene is going to bog down
to a complete halt and we'll drown our readers in detail...
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And what we want in this
scene...
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is a rise to a dramatic peak.
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Our POV gets increasingly
tense, frightened, panicky until the scene peaks.
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Maybe she is simply put in a
room and the door closes and she realizes she is trapped.
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Maybe she explodes, has a
panic attack, or simply crawls into her new bed with her clothes on and
pulls the covers over her head...
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but we want to increase the
tension to that moment.
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megger
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How does this work in
nonfiction?
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Same way, megger, if you're
doing a type of nonfiction that includes some kind of dramatic rise and
fall.
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Nonfiction work on say, the
life of animals, might use the same dramatic rise and fall.
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You might be describing the
birth of a Zebra colt and the mare's nervousness as hyena's gather.
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janecj333
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she picks up a butter knife off
the kitchen counter
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That could be a dramatic high
point. Any of these events could be.
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The dramatic high point of the
scene does not have to include violence...
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it is simply the point at
which the rising tension peaks and ends.
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Think of blowing up a baloon
until it pops.
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megger
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I can see that, but a
"how-to" doesn't seem to have a lot of drama ...
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mary rosenblum
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Exactly, megger. :-) A
dramatic rendition of how to build a staircase would probably not sell
well. :-)
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You have to suit your prose to
your intention.
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Although that dramatic stair
how-to would sure be fun to read!
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor and we're talking about using
prose to create dramatic variation. I've published seven novels (number
eight will be out next year) , more than 60 short stories, and will do my
best to answer any questions you have. If you're new here, remember that
you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the 'word bubble' next
to the red question mark at the top of the screen in order to ask a
question. Your regular 'send' bar won't reach me! Or you can use /ask and
type your question into the regular send bar if that works better for you..
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megger
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The light bulb has arrived over
my head.
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mary rosenblum
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-)
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Okay, back to our scene...
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mary rosenblum
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Now that we have a TON of ways
to build tension, we need to choose which FEW we will really use...
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and how to order them.
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The scene starts out 'low' in
tension and ends at 'high'.
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Think about rising panic in
this kid. Slowly the realization is squeezing her that she is STUCK here.
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mary rosenblum
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At first, the things she sees
and hears aren't too awful, but they get worse, worse, and finally she
crawls under the covers and wants to die...
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or climbs out the bathroom
window and runs for it.
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xana
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Possibly have high point of scene
in her new bedroom
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mary rosenblum
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That could work.
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mary rosenblum
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Let's take her through the
home. She is met at the door. What might strike her first...her first
negative impression.
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Smell?
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Cabbage and old socks? Hint of
stale cigarette smoke?
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megger
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Bars on the windows and doors?
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mary rosenblum
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Good one, megger. She's
standing on the stoop with the social worker and looking at the bars. Jail,
she thinks.
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I dont care what they call it.
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noise level?
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xana
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broccoli
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info
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a cranky old bat that runs the
place
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There we go...woman yanks the
door open, hair all straggly, scowling, releasing a wave of broccoli and
dirty clothes.
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janecj333
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she's a vegetarian and there's
chicken frying on the stove
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that would work...smell is
very evocataive.
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She can smell dirty stuff,
unwashed bodies, frying meat and she's a vegan...
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dirty diapers...these all are
going to suggest an unpleasant place.
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andi
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in the background a couple of
teens arguing
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Yeah, now we're raising the
tension level. The old bat grabs her by the arm likes she's afraid POV will
run and tows her down the hall...
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note the verb? Tows.
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One step above 'drags'.
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fighting
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Loud voices...arguing...they
hurt her ears. She wants to put her hands over her ears...
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but Old Bat has her by the
elbow. Two teen boys burst out of a doorway pushing and yelling and the Old
Bat...
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smacks one of 'em across the
face. (The social worker has left)
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chatty lady
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Maybe resisting, shes too
unshure to be fighting yet...
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mary rosenblum
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Yep, chatty (Nice to see you
here!!!)...
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mary rosenblum
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The 'tows' sort of implies
that...she's not heading in that direction willingly.
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info
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maybe even add another teenage
girl who is pregnant
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After the boys, she may see a
girl sitting on a sofa, shoulders slumped, just staring at her belly, dirty
hair...
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Another girl on the phone with
her baby on her hip. It starts screaming, she can smell the diapers, her
head is splitting...
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mary rosenblum
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the kitchen is a blur of
light, chicken frying on the greasy stove, the Old Bat is yelling something
into her face, boombox is blaring...
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lights are blinding her and
the walls are closing in, going to crush her...
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xana
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Are girls and boys put in same
group home?
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mary rosenblum
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Probably not, xana. We're
sacrificing authenticity for a quick and dirty example here. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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That's the kind of thing you'd
research before you really did it, though.
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mary rosenblum
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If you notice, we have 'upped
the ante' in our brief scene.
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janecj333
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in group homes, despite the
chaos, everyone knows what they're supposed to be doing...there will be
someone who is the one who calms everything down, who can handle her like
the adults can't
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mary rosenblum
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Depends on what you want to do
with the scene, jane.
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mary rosenblum
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If the purpose of the scene is
to bring this girl to the breaking point so that she climbs out that
bathroom window...
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mary rosenblum
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or withdraws into catatonia or
what have you...
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mary rosenblum
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you do the scene through HER
narrow perspective.
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mary rosenblum
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Remember...this is HER
perception of this house.
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mary rosenblum
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Let's look at what it might
really be.
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mary rosenblum
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It's Friday night, Emilio and
Joshua have been building to the fight all day, Marianne, the girl on the
sofa has finally broken up...
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with her abusive boyfriend and
is just feeling sad, even though it was the right thing...
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mary rosenblum
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The stove is greasy becuase
the chicken is spattering...and in about an hour...
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mary rosenblum
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the table will be set and
everybody will be eating dinner, laughing, and all will be well.
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mary rosenblum
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BUT...this is our mentally ill,
distressed kid, and this is the world SHE sees.
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mary rosenblum
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It is not the world that IS.
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mary rosenblum
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Things seem worse and worse
because she sees them as worse and worse.
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mary rosenblum
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The walls don't really bulge
toward her to crush her...but they seem to, to HER.
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megger
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But we wouldn't necessarily need
to tell the readers about both worlds, right?
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mary rosenblum
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Absolutely not, megger, and
this is where a lot of novice writers have trouble.
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mary rosenblum
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YOu want to 'play fair'.
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mary rosenblum
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You describe the house the way
it would seem to us, and let the girl think 'oh, I can't stand it here, I
just can't.
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mary rosenblum
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And if you compare that to our
details from her perspective...
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mary rosenblum
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you'll see that there is no
comparison at all in terms of tension and suspense.
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mary rosenblum
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In our scene from her
perspective, we are building to that climax and we KNOW something has got
to give...
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mary rosenblum
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and pretty soon we're holding
our breaths thinking 'what is she gonna do'?
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mary rosenblum
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You have showed us her
building tension through the way you described the scene.
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janp
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new bedroom to be shared with
four other scruffy looking girls
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megger
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Eminem's lovely music coming
from another room adds to the festive air...
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mary rosenblum
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These are all good details.
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janecj333
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someone has thrown the keys to
the van onto the table, in plain sight...she's quick, fueld by paranoia
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mary rosenblum
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Yep...and now, of course, we
know she is going to steal the van later...
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mary rosenblum
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this is a small dramatic
peak...but now we can't continue to build tension. This is the peak of this
scene now...
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mary rosenblum
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we need to back off and build
to the theft of the van...
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mary rosenblum
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see how we construct the ups
and downs of a nice roller coaster story?
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janecj333
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she sprints for the door, keys
in hand
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mary rosenblum
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We could do that...or, she
could get herself under control and we know she'll sneak out later.
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mary rosenblum
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Why choose one or the other?
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mary rosenblum
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This is how you regulate the
pace of your story.
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mary rosenblum
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If she charges out the door,
leaps into the van and peels out...
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mary rosenblum
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you are propelling the story
forward at a headlong charge.
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mary rosenblum
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The home is a minor stopping
point and we've blown on by.
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mary rosenblum
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BUt...
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mary rosenblum
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say that home needs to be
important.
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mary rosenblum
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You want the reader to learn a
few things about the people in it or the place itself..
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mary rosenblum
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so you don't let her charge
out the door.
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mary rosenblum
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Instead she hangs around,
smart enough to pretend to be fine, waiting for her chance...
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mary rosenblum
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and during the dinner
conversation and bedtime rituals, we learn what we need to learn about
people or place.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor and we're talking about using
prose to create dramatic variation. I've published seven novels (number
eight will be out next year) , more than 60 short stories, and will do my
best to answer any questions you have. If you're new here, remember that
you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the 'word bubble' next
to the red question mark at the top of the screen in order to ask a
question. Your regular 'send' bar won't reach me! Or you can use /ask and
type your question into the regular send bar if that works better for you..
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mary rosenblum
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Do put /ask in front of your
comments so they can end up in the transcript.
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mary rosenblum
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Cajun said that any kid who
had been in trouble before would know not to grab keys and run...
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mary rosenblum
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but of course, her behavior
depends entirely on who she is as a character.
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mary rosenblum
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So we have an option here to
either keep the pace charging forward and leave the home and its residents
behind...
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mary rosenblum
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or to spend more time meeting
them.
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mary rosenblum
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You'd choose depending on what
you needed for your story.
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xana
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She observes kids helping at
dinner prep and thinks prison
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info
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or perhaps waits a little while
and makes a break when no one is looking
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megger
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Or she stops with her hand on
the doorknob, the judge's words in her mind...
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mary rosenblum
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They're all good options.
You'd choose which one you wanted depending on where you were going with
the story...
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mary rosenblum
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and who this character is.
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beirdd
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The evening and mealtime rituals
are the perfect place to learn the pecking order.
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mary rosenblum
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Oh it's a great place to show
the reader LOTS of stuff, beirdd.
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info
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have the girl stay the night
with thoughts of getting information so she can plan an escape without
being noticed and ends up finding out information that leads to learning
more about herself.....say by the end of the book the mc finds out old bat
is actually her own grandmother
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mary rosenblum
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That would work, info. There,
you'd create more of these dramatic peaks...maybe not so intense...
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mary rosenblum
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as she interacts, makes
mistakes, gets people mad at her, you have lots of potential for small
peaks of drama.
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janecj333
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in a very short story you won't
have much time for multiple peaks of dramatic tension
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mary rosenblum
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Oh sure you will, Jane.
Dramatic peaks can come and go in a single paragraph.
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mary rosenblum
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You don't need a long,
elaborate scene in order to build to a dramatic moment.
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mary rosenblum
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I'm not talking melodrama...
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mary rosenblum
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Any event or interaction that
increases the tension then allows it to relax adds texture to your piece.
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mary rosenblum
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A long, smooth, slow build to
a single climax point is kind of boring for the most part.
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andi
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would she know where she would
go when she ran?
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mary rosenblum
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These dramatic peaks should
all be smaller than your main climax and many will be very small.
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mary rosenblum
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You'd decide that, andi. :-)
It's your story and your character.
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mary rosenblum
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That's part of your plot.
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mary rosenblum
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Let me give you an example of
a very short dramatic peak.
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mary rosenblum
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We have some companions
traveling through a dangerous land on a quest of some sort.
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mary rosenblum
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Alia, one of them, has hooked
up with the band some time ago and they like her.
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mary rosenblum
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They don't know she's a
professional thief and they'd kick her out, she figures...
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mary rosenblum
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if they did.
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mary rosenblum
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But she thinks one of 'em
looks familiar and wonders where she met him and how.
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mary rosenblum
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So here they are at the fire,
eating dinner.
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mary rosenblum
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Shard sliced off a strip of
the roasting haunch and handed it to her on the point of his knife. "I
was in Darlan when the Summer King was crowned." He winked at her.
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mary rosenblum
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"You never saw so many
jewels in your life."
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mary rosenblum
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"Or so many
thieves," Kirwan drawled.
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mary rosenblum
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"Oh yeah, you got to
watch for the cutpurses." Shard waved his blade and grinned. "I
cut off a couple of fingers one night. Shouldn't have been in my
pocket."
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mary rosenblum
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"The worst ones are the
girls." Kirwan's voice went soft. "They're the sneakiest.
Especially the young one.s"
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mary rosenblum
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"Alia stared at the fire,
felt the color fade from her face. Couldn't be. She lifted the meat, forced
herself to bite it.
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mary rosenblum
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"Well, I'm turning
in." Shard sheathed his knife and turned to his bedroll. "Bank
the fire when you're done sitting up."
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mary rosenblum
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"I might sit up all
night," Kirwan said in that same, soft voice.
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mary rosenblum
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Alia choked down the meat and
crawled off to her own blankets. Time to leave. As soon as they reached
water.
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mary rosenblum
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That's a small dramatic scene
that peaks with Kirwan's comment about young girl thieves.
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mary rosenblum
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Alia thinks he might be
referring to her.
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mary rosenblum
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The tension drops off as Shard
breaks the moment by going to bed and Alia follows, deciding it's time to
leave.
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mary rosenblum
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And that's only a few
sentence.
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mary rosenblum
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The tension builds when
Kirwan's voice goes soft.
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mary rosenblum
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That tells us his mood has
changed.
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mary rosenblum
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Before this it was casual,
relaxed.
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mary rosenblum
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No longer.
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mary rosenblum
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It is heightened as Alia
stares at the fire and feels the color leave her face.
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mary rosenblum
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She is frightened.
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xana
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So there could be a dramatic
peak in each room visited?
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mary rosenblum
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You could do that,
Xana...you'd have to see how it flowed.
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mary rosenblum
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You need some 'relax time'
between peaks or it gets to feel like a bumpy road.
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mary rosenblum
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This is our After Hours Forum,
with me, Mary Rosenblum, your web editor and we're talking about using
prose to create dramatic variation. I've published seven novels (number
eight will be out next year) , more than 60 short stories, and will do my
best to answer any questions you have. If you're new here, remember that
you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the 'word bubble' next
to the red question mark at the top of the screen in order to ask a
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type your question into the regular send bar if that works better for you..
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info
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I would have to say if she was
to think about where she would go, wouldn't her first thoughts be to get
out and if successful than figure out whether or not to try leaving
town/state?
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mary rosenblum
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Again, it depends on your
character, info.
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mary rosenblum
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If she acts first and then
thinks, yeah. She might climb out the window or steal the van and then
start wondering where to go.
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mary rosenblum
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But if she is a thoughtful kid
who plans her moves, she'd think first and act later.
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mary rosenblum
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Every scene has a natural
dramatic arc...it may not be a powerful peak of violence or anger...
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mary rosenblum
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but it has a rise and fall...
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mary rosenblum
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It's when you don't put that
dramatic arc into each scene that the story reads flat...and it's hard to
figure out why it reads flat when you're first starting out.
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mary rosenblum
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Often that is teh reason.
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mary rosenblum
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And yes, I consciously
identify my dramatic peaks for every scene. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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That's part of what I do in my
revision process...I hone each scene so that the action rises smoothly to
that peak.
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mary rosenblum
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Most of you are probably doing
it already without being conscious of it.
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mary rosenblum
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You know how stories 'feel'.
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mary rosenblum
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We all start writing by what
'feels right' and only later learn how techniques make it feel right. :-)
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ltsonya
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I never thought of doing that
for each scene, but is that something we should worry about more in the
revision and just concentrate on writing first?
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mary rosenblum
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Worry about it in revision,
lt.
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mary rosenblum
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When you're first writing,
work on getting the words on paper and play with 'em later.
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mary rosenblum
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The more practice you have at
storytelling, the more you'll do a lot of these things consciously in your
first draft...
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mary rosenblum
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but you won't have to
concentrate on 'em.
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mary rosenblum
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Right now, if you concentrate
on something like that, you may well blow the flow of that first draft for
yourself.
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mary rosenblum
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Start out by doing EVERYTHING
in revision!
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mary rosenblum
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Remember, I have been doing
this every day and analyzing what I'm doing for something like 18 years
now.
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mary rosenblum
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I did NOT have this awareness
of what I was doing even when I was first regularly publishing.
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mary rosenblum
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But the more you understand
HOW things work, the better you get at making your words do what you want,
and doing it intentionally.
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mary rosenblum
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A lot of my early stories were
sort of in the line of 'oh, wow, that worked. Cool. What did i do
here?"
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ashton
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I simply tell myself that
writing is a roller coaster. You'll have those flat stretches and then the
climb that leads to the fall.
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mary rosenblum
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YOu mean your story shape,
ashton?
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mary rosenblum
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That's the way I think of it,
too. As a roller coaster.
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mary rosenblum
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Lots of little peaks and one
big screamer of a drop.
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mary rosenblum
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A lot of early stories tend to
be a flat plane with a peak in the middle.
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mary rosenblum
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Not nearly as much fun to
ride. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Well remember in general, lots
of big, complex words tend to reduce tension.
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mary rosenblum
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Spare, tight prose with few
descriptives tends to increase it...
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mary rosenblum
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but they must match the
content!
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mary rosenblum
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When you construct a scene,
gather your details...as many as you can...and then pick the best few...
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mary rosenblum
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to create a rising dramatic
arc to the peak of the scene.
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mary rosenblum
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And that peak can be nothing
more than a man's comment and a woman's brief blench.
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xana
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Just finished Prep; not a lot of
dramattic peaks but good bo
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mary rosenblum
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Prep?
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mary rosenblum
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And I'll bet the dramatic
peaks are there. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Most of them you don't
notice...they're not supposed to stand out...
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xana
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A best seller about teen in
boarding school
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mary rosenblum
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but if you go back and look at
individual scenes, you'll find they have dramatic arcs, even if they're
subtle. Bet you.
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info
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Thanks Mary, I appreciate the
help and tips on scenes like the example I gave
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mary rosenblum
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It was a great example. :-)
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janecj333
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blench?
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mary rosenblum
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I THINK is an archaic form of
'blanch' meaning to go pale...
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mary rosenblum
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but it could be a Fantasy word
I've picked up from some book. Have to check the Oxford Unabridged.
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cosmos
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to shrink, to flinch
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mary rosenblum
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Ah, thanks, cosmos.
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mary rosenblum
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well it worked. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I still run into words whose
meaning I've inferred over the years...
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mary rosenblum
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and because they always
worked, I never realized I didnt quite have the meaning right. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I hope you all join us
tomorrow evening for our casual chat...
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mary rosenblum
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right here in the same place,
same time.
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mary rosenblum
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We just get together and talk
about whatever.
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mary rosenblum
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I'll post the transcript of
this in the usual place:
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mary rosenblum
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Writing Craft: Forum
Transcripts.
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info
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is there a chat tomorrow
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mary rosenblum
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Yep...right here, info.
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xana
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No verbs to be in your contest
story?
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mary rosenblum
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No, that was last time, xana.
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mary rosenblum
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No restrictions on this
one...other than it has to be 500 words max and on the theme of New
Beginnings.
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robastor
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No chats on Sunday?
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mary rosenblum
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Oops. sorry.
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mary rosenblum
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I guess I think this is
Saturday.
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mary rosenblum
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Sorry.
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mary rosenblum
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Our chat is on Sunday.
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mary rosenblum
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Sheesh, time goes by fast
enough I shouldn't start skipping ahead.
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mary rosenblum
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See you all SUNDAY!
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mary rosenblum
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Sigh.
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mary rosenblum
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Nice that I now seem to have
an extra weekend day. LOL
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mary rosenblum
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Have a good weekend, all!
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mary rosenblum
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Tell you what, folks...
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mary rosenblum
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to save us all a lot of
questions...
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mary rosenblum
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I'll post the contest details
for the New Beginnings anthology on the website...
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mary rosenblum
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in the CHristmas Anthology
section.
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