Tag: Artist
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 19: Dialogue Continues
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment: “Collision” and “Mrs. Galvin” chapters from Teardrop Road The Vanishing Tag This is the lesson I have heard when it comes to dialogue: Don’t tag too often. Don’t get too specific with your tag. First, let’s define tag. A tag is very simple. He said is a tag. We…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 17: Character
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Beginning of My Life” and “The Coming of Shadow” chapters from Teardrop Road, and the novella Seeds of Tarako. Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 14 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 14: Character Creation
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Strong Urge to Fly” chapter from Teardrop Road We’re gonna talk about character creation today. I had you read “Strong Urge to Fly.” It’s a story of when Smear Lord of Ire was created. The one that, in my mind, we call Artist. I remember earlier…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 13: Setting
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Pop” and “Mrs. Galvin” chapters from Teardrop Road Donald Maass, he’s a New York agent, teaches writing all over the country. Said no two settings are the same. He’s right. Think about cities. Every city you have ever lived in has had at least one thing…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 11: Deadlines
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Four Queens” chapter from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The assignment from Class 9 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of the assignment. I told you to read…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 6: The Shadow of the Imposter
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “Billy Badass Part 1” and “Billy Badass Part 2” chapters from Teardrop Road Writing Assignment for this class: The writing assignment from Class 3 is due today. Send it to jesseteller (at) yahoo (dot) com. Remember to rate and review your performance at the bottom of…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 3: Point of View
Hey, ho, let’s go! Reading Assignment for this class: “The Prince of Darkness” chapter from Teardrop Road. Class Storytelling Imagine you’re writing the story of this class, and you are telling the story from your point of view, my Grad Student’s point of view, or my point of view. Your Point of View As a student,…
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Write Like a Gangster, Class 1: Syllabus
This course is going to be called Write Like A Gangster. I figured out through the course of my career so far that a lot of people will tell you so many hard, fast rules of what you should and shouldn’t do when you’re writing. I don’t believe in those. I’ve broken the rules too…
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My Apocrypha 22: Tiger Tracks
I guess now we have to talk about the Freedom of Press. It’s a powerful thing. A person with no qualifications can start up a paper or a TV channel and force their way into the lives of everyone willing to read or watch. If radio, listen to any bit of information that can be…
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My Apocrypha 16: King
I believe it was March 4, 2001, that the city of Springfield celebrated Fat Tuesday. Now if you want to get technical, that is the Saturday before Fat Tuesday, but we are in Missouri, not New Orleans, and the bars figured, fuck it, close enough. Downtown planned a pub crawl, and for about twenty dollars…
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