One of my techniques for tackling the activities I find more difficult in the Open University’s A174 Start Writing Fiction is to turn the concept inside out and upside down. If I’m required to write in a way that feels unnatural or alien to me, I turn the entire story on its head, make it [...]
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Archive | 11 December, 2011
Write a wedding conversation? Me?
I’ve run into another writing activity in the Open University’s A174 Start Writing Fiction that takes me far into the realm of the unknown. Activity 3.9 asks us to develop a narrative, by first telling a mini-story almost entirely though dialogue and then retelling it entirely in narrative without dialogue. Fair enough, it’s interesting challenge [...]
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11 December, 2011


