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A good story is like a motorcycle. All the parts move together and move forward. (7-8-99)
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How Can He Keep Her Down On The Farm?
by Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be A Great Writer All writing is either a protest or a confession. What I write in this space, is both. My wife and I can no longer speak freely or forthrightly to … Continue reading
Teenage Daughter Adds A New Dimension
By Leonard Bishop I have a teenage daughter and we are in a generation gap. At 16 she has outgrown rainbow stickers and unicorns and is obsessed on furs and Ferraris. She is everywhere in the house, all at … Continue reading
Writers, Farmers: Two of a Kind
By Leonard Bishop I see the splendor of wheat fields sprawled throughout Kansas and I am stunned with wonder. I drive along the flat roads between cities and the green crops flow like an ocean beginning to fill … Continue reading
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
By Leonard Bishop Have I been cursed by moving to Kansas –or blessed? Last year I had decided to stop writing “artistic” novels that penetrate the core of life and peel naked the soul; I wanted to … Continue reading
Writing Hint: Use Adventure!
From Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be A Great Writer To keep a novel alive, use adventure. Have a highly credible character that performs highly incredible things. (8/26/98)
When You Know You’ve Finally Made It
By Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be A Great Writer I dislike “name droppers” unless it’s my name they’re dropping. Early in my career as a writer I achieved that status. Everyone, in any profession, wants his/her name … Continue reading
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Writer’s Hint: Keeping the Readers Interested
From Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be a Great Writer A reader’s interest is captured by what you tell them, not by what you promise to tell them. (11/5/98)
Writer’s Hint: How to Survive While Waiting to be A Professional Writer
From Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare to Be a Great Writer If you feel like a failure, go back into your past and find a time of accomplishment for something you once thought impossible. Change the “inner editor” (Instead of … Continue reading
Need A Plot? Experts Recycle Them
By Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare To Be A Great Writer There are three reference books that all unpublished (and many already published) writers must own: One Hundred Non-Royalty One-Act Plays (Grosset and Dunlap), 101 of the World’s Greatest … Continue reading
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Writer’s Hint: Theatricality and Drama
From Leonard Bishop, Author of Dare to Be a Great Writer Theatricality is visual, unusual, and gets the reader’s attention. Drama holds the reader in an emotional strata. That’s what the readers are engaged in. (10-13-94) ©by Leonard Bishop
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