Laura Whitcomb




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The exercise from my book NOVEL SHORTCUTS that I found the most useful was Shortcut to the Scene. Using it I found I could write scenes about three times faster and yet the end result needed less rewriting. So, in case some of you Nanowrimonians would like to try it, here is the exercise.

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STEP I: THE SCENE OUTLINE

First you write down what needs to happen in the scene: the action, the goal, the conf...

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A Certain Slant of Light A Certain Slant of Light
by Laura Whitcomb
avg rating 3.90 — 2,110 ratings — published 2005
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The Fetch The Fetch
by Laura Whitcomb
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Your First Novel: A Published... Your First Novel: A Published Author And a Top Agent Share the Keys to Achieving Your Dream
by Ann Rittenberg, Laura Whitcomb
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Novel Shortcuts: Ten Technique... Novel Shortcuts: Ten Techniques that Ensure a Great First Draft
by Laura Whitcomb
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Entre Luz y Tiniebla Entre Luz y Tiniebla
by Laura Whitcomb
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""About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page.

"Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.

He wrote and whispered the words aloud as he did. "I am in the library. It smells like old stuff."

"It smells familiar," I suggested. "It smells like words." Because his left side was to me, I couldn't easily take his hand to write.

"Books are boring," James said as he wrote.

"They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered.

He thought about this and then wrote with a smile, "I hate books."

From A Certain Slant of Light"
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"The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks."
Laura Whitcomb (A Certain Slant of Light)
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""I couldn't take my eyes off him. Like a desert wanderer afraid of mirages, I gazed at my oasis, but he was real.""
Laura Whitcomb (A Certain Slant of Light)
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