Comments on: Empowering Ways to “Think” About Your Story http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story Novel Writing, Screenwriting and Storytelling Tips & Fundamentals Wed, 16 May 2012 23:16:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Words on the craft of writing | Zero Rich Party Links http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2947 Words on the craft of writing | Zero Rich Party Links Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:59:32 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2947 [...] been writing a great series on what elevates a story to greatness. In his first post, he discusses empowering ways to think about your story; the second is about the power of “arena;” the third, taking the reader for the ride of [...] [...] been writing a great series on what elevates a story to greatness. In his first post, he discusses empowering ways to think about your story; the second is about the power of “arena;” the third, taking the reader for the ride of [...]

]]> By: Steve http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2770 Steve Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:18:06 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2770 Mundane is the building across the street where Tim works as a low level stock broker just out of college. Arena is where the building is a battleship on a collision course with an old pirate ship, across a hundred yards of shark infested heat waves eating up the helpless, innocent cars and pedestrians below. Tim the parrot-less pirate, escaped the deadly streets and has no sympathy for those less fortunate ones. He's got bigger fish to fry. Ok not entirely original (inspired by a Monty Python concept), but it can be the "here and now and ordinary" but seen in a new way. Am I right? By the way, I could only hope to have one tenth the courage of Pat Tillman. God bless him. Mundane is the building across the street where Tim works as a low level stock broker just out of college.

Arena is where the building is a battleship on a collision course with an old pirate ship, across a hundred yards of shark infested heat waves eating up the helpless, innocent cars and pedestrians below. Tim the parrot-less pirate, escaped the deadly streets and has no sympathy for those less fortunate ones. He’s got bigger fish to fry.

Ok not entirely original (inspired by a Monty Python concept), but it can be the “here and now and ordinary” but seen in a new way.

Am I right?

By the way, I could only hope to have one tenth the courage of Pat Tillman. God bless him.

]]> By: janice |Sharing the Journey http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2762 janice |Sharing the Journey Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:04:59 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2762 Praise be - someone brave enough to mention the importance of sensibility, as well as the following, which I loved, from this post's sibling: "Writing voice isn’t as much a function of thinking as it is something that eludes definition and therefore assimilation. The more artful flavors of prose are more often a function of intuition and imitation fused with heart and wit and delivered with a strong does of lyric sensibility." Praise be – someone brave enough to mention the importance of sensibility, as well as the following, which I loved, from this post’s sibling:

“Writing voice isn’t as much a function of thinking as it is something that eludes definition and therefore assimilation. The more artful flavors of prose are more often a function of intuition and imitation fused with heart and wit and delivered with a strong does of lyric sensibility.”

]]> By: nancy http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2739 nancy Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:48:32 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2739 Larry! I want to order your books, but I'm in Rome and do not want to use my credit card on a hotel computer. I had already left when you made the first offer. I'll be home this weekend. Is there anyway I can get in on this deal this weekend? Larry! I want to order your books, but I’m in Rome and do not want to use my credit card on a hotel computer. I had already left when you made the first offer. I’ll be home this weekend. Is there anyway I can get in on this deal this weekend?

]]> By: Natalie http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2738 Natalie Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:47:36 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2738 THIS IS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD! GLORY! THIS IS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD! GLORY!

]]> By: Colleen Shine Phillips http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2737 Colleen Shine Phillips Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:06:34 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2737 Thinking outside the box is something that always intrigues me. Not just for the sake of doing it, for the sake of being different, but because it is uncharted territory. I hope you have insights into this. I look forward to it. Thinking outside the box is something that always intrigues me. Not just for the sake of doing it, for the sake of being different, but because it is uncharted territory. I hope you have insights into this. I look forward to it.

]]> By: Gwen Hernandez http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2736 Gwen Hernandez Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:31:54 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2736 Can't wait to hear more! Can’t wait to hear more!

]]> By: Shirls http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2734 Shirls Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:30:28 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2734 Just received a text to say my copy of Whisper will be here tomorrow! I hereby give myself permission to stop thinking about my story until I have devoured it whole. Just received a text to say my copy of Whisper will be here tomorrow! I hereby give myself permission to stop thinking about my story until I have devoured it whole.

]]> By: Bruce H. Johnson http://storyfix.com/empowering-ways-to-%e2%80%9cthink%e2%80%9d-about-your-story/comment-page-1#comment-2732 Bruce H. Johnson Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:38:56 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=2319#comment-2732 Definitely looking forward to the rest of this. Guys, get your Six Core Competencies up to the virtuoso level. Crank your concept higher than the stars. That's a good start; we may get to be competent writers that way. Now we wait for Larry to reveal the next step. Definitely looking forward to the rest of this.

Guys, get your Six Core Competencies up to the virtuoso level. Crank your concept higher than the stars. That’s a good start; we may get to be competent writers that way.

Now we wait for Larry to reveal the next step.

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