Robert C. Day's Blog, page 58
March 14, 2016
Preserving Food
I was browsing the internet recently and I found, snuggled in nicely between ‘Get Supermodel EyeBrows in Under Two Minutes’ and ‘The 10 Best Dating Sites in the UK’an article offering ‘Seven Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death’. Intrigued, I dug a little deeper into the subject and discovered that there are hundredsof sites offering such services. Death, my friends, is a boom industry!
Most of them revolve around unresolved issues with friends and family. They offer a way to commu...
Money
There are plenty of ways to make money with your writing, but all of them involve having an audience.
Concentrate on doing something consistently well over a long period of time and you will gain followers who may, one day, buy your writings.
The Dome Structure
Plot driven stories have, when plotted on a graph, a dome like structure, with excitement (or something like it) on the vertical axisand time onthehorizontal axis.This isknown as the‘Story Arc’.
Character driven stories have a different, more detailed arc (not described here), which revolves around the character’s need to change.
These are the main elementsyou willneed when working out astory arc for a plot driven story:
Beginning. This comes at the bottom left of the dome and is basically a...Sedentism
Creative Writing is much the same as any discipline – it’s important that you don’tget stuckin one place for too long.
Here are a few tips to enable you to develop your skillsas a creative writer:
Symbols
I just read five articles about symbolism and I got to tell you that I’m really none the wiser.
Aside from the common agreement that any long pointy object in a story is a symbol for … erm … fertility (or something like that); and that red is a symbol for either love, jealousy or death (depending on the context), I’m lost as to how to apply symbolism to story-writing in any coherent way.
A little help here guys?
No?
Okay – after reading a bit moreI’m a tad further on.
Starting with a basic de...
Soul
It will be much easier for you to make progress with writing a story if you know what you want to communicate to your readers at the outset. Decide what your central message will bebefore you put pen to paper.
Here are some examples of messages to get you started:
Power – the search for power / the loss of power / what we are willing to give up for power etc. Love – love fades / love is blind / love can overcome all obstacle etc. Good versus evil – the triumph of good over evil or vice versa...Mediumship
Some think that Automatic Writing involves channelling Spirit Guides and others think that it is the Higher Self that is being channelled, but whatever your belief, this can be a great way to put your critical mind to one side and get some productive writing time in. Hey, if it worked for the author Neale Donald Walsh (Conversations with God) then why shouldn’t it work for you?
Here are some tips on how to get started:
Make sure that the conditions are right before you settle down to write....February 10, 2016
How to be Good
You’re right.
No – I mean it – you’re 100 percent correct in what you say.
I was listening to you with that Russian gentleman, and what you were telling him was all true. Yeah – despite that. I could tellyou a few things about him that would open your eyes, but just know fornow that he is sooo full of shtick. Yeah – technical term. Listen – don’t let his anger get to you.He’s just likeall thepeople at this party, no matter how gracious and beautiful they seem – it’s all flim-flam. Yeah – like...
February 8, 2016
It’s Just Me
Somewhere beneath my skin I shivered. I massaged the tremor – worrying my finger-pinched lips back and forth. Rain gusted across the tarpaulin above me and the many holes wolfed the wind through to my bare skin. February was no month for bare skin.
Just an hour before I had been cocooned in lights that spoke of sweetness and love. Laughter from close by had enveloped me like Jacuzzi bubbles and before me – conversation like a mouth full of hot buttery toast comforted my mind and swelled my so...
January 22, 2016
Speed Awareness Course
This is what I did whilst at the Speed Awareness Course.
