http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1 Fiction Inspired by Life Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~3/Qs1nLbInBzM/writing-fiction-scene-part-2.html http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-fiction-scene-part-2.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:37 +0000 Rebecca Talley http://pursueyourwritingdream.com/?p=261 In Writing Fiction: Scene, Part 1, I discussed what each scene requires: goal, conflict, and disaster. Now for Part 2. After your POV character experiences the disaster, or the inability to reach her goal, she must have a reaction. For &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-fiction-scene-part-2.html">read more</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~4/Qs1nLbInBzM" height="1" width="1"/> http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-fiction-scene-part-2.html/feed 0 http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-fiction-scene-part-2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~3/mlvk3LF62F8/creating-a-characters-backstory-part-2.html http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/creating-a-characters-backstory-part-2.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:37 +0000 Rebecca Talley http://pursueyourwritingdream.com/?p=163 Understanding a character’s backstory will have a dramatic impact on your novel. If you don’t understand, or take the time to investigate, your character’s backstory, your story will suffer and your characters will feel more like cardboard stereotypes than living, &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/creating-a-characters-backstory-part-2.html">read more</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~4/mlvk3LF62F8" height="1" width="1"/> http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/creating-a-characters-backstory-part-2.html/feed 0 http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/creating-a-characters-backstory-part-2.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~3/HXw2QaMzbZY/writing-critique-groups.html http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-critique-groups.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 11:34:37 +0000 Rebecca Talley http://pursueyourwritingdream.com/?p=114 Writing is a solitary art. Generally, we spend time alone at the keyboard trying to put on paper what&#8217;s so easily flowing through our minds. However, it&#8217;s important to involve others in your writing in the form of a critique &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-critique-groups.html">read more</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~4/HXw2QaMzbZY" height="1" width="1"/> http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-critique-groups.html/feed 0 http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/writing-critique-groups.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~3/WkMFDJhEUH4/the-cover-letter.html http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/the-cover-letter.html#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 10:29:50 +0000 Rebecca Talley http://pursueyourwritingdream.com/?p=96 A cover letter is different from a query letter. The purpose of a query letter is to ask an editor if he would be interested in reading your work. In a query letter you provide a hook to interest the &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/the-cover-letter.html">read more</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~4/WkMFDJhEUH4" height="1" width="1"/> http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/the-cover-letter.html/feed 2 http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/the-cover-letter.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~3/iSqHiQ9fS_4/how-to-revise-your-novel-with-holly-lisle.html http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/how-to-revise-your-novel-with-holly-lisle.html#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 21:30:28 +0000 Rebecca Talley http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/?p=708 I highly recommend this online course because it is phenomenal. I have learned so much about my writing and how to make it better from this course. Holly Lisle covers the revising process in such depth. She uses solid, concrete examples &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/how-to-revise-your-novel-with-holly-lisle.html">read more</a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RebeccaCornishTalley/~4/iSqHiQ9fS_4" height="1" width="1"/> http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/how-to-revise-your-novel-with-holly-lisle.html/feed 0 http://rebeccatalley.com/blog1/how-to-revise-your-novel-with-holly-lisle.html