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Action — WrØ-hap i.e., scenes predominantly of physical action or events or incidents, what happens blow by blow. See also Detail & Description — Narrator & Narration — Plots & Plotting — Scenes — Upping the Stakes — Violence.
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Adages, axioms, sayings, slogans & expressions about writers and writing WrØ-adage. See also Authors and Rules
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Adapting/changing/converting material from one form to another (e.g., playscript {teleplay, screenplay, stageplay, radioplay, etc} to novel or v.v., short stories to story-cycle or fix-up — tag also for the specific original and target forms) or from one genre/category to another — WrØ-rit
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Advance on royalties — see Business and Publishers also Agents.
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Advice to writers — see Adages and Rules.
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Age-level — writing for particular age readers, see Genres.
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Agents, literary — some are tagged WriteOn-agents, all are also tagged WrØ-ag. See also Business — Publishers — Queries
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Alaska State Writing Assessment — conventions/mechanics of correct writing and composition, e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation, content, organization, sentence fluency, paragraph fluency, etc. in a piece of work/essay overall— and similar overall language-skills issues and approaches — see Mechanics. See also Word-Choice — Plots & Plotting — Ideas — Goals/Conflicts/Premise — Revision — Weak writing.
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Alligators through the transom — see Upping (the stakes, the jeopardy, the tension, etc) and Transomalligator.
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Alpha readers — see <big>Criticism, critique and critiquing</big>
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Ambiance/atmosphere of scene or book, or mood of character — see Character — Detail & Description — Feelings — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor. Narrator & Naration — Setting — Word choice
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Antagonist (“villains”, adversaries) see Characters, Bad
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Archetypes — see Diversity — Monomyth — Overuse.
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Arc (story arc) — see Methodologies and Plots&Plotting
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“As you know, Bob” — see Exposition
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Assistance (monetary) — fellowship awards, scholarships, stipends, and other monetary assistance for life expenses while writing or for studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related — see Monetary Assistance.
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Atmosphere/ambiance of scene or book, or mood of character — see Character — Detail & Description — Feelings — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor. Narrator & Naration — Setting — Word choice
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Audience — see Readership
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Author’s Process — see Process — see also Methodologies
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Authors/authorship WrØ-auth for diaries [a] exploring one particular author’s writing (also tag with the author’s name ) or Methodologies or quotes, or his/her route to becoming a published author, or comparing-with/illustrating several, rather than only in passing. If extensively on a single or more authors, also tag with their names (without WrØ in front) first and last, no space between (DK std style) unless fully unique, in which case also tag by unique name, e.g., Vonnegut or Pratchett (but note that there are multiple tags for Sir/Terry/Pratchett/is-god, so...) See also Adages — Books & Magazines/Journals for writers and on writing — Rules. For authorship in the business sense, see Business. For authorship in the copyright sense, see Limits or Business.
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Avoiding clichés — see Clichés — see also Weak writing
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Awards — for fellowshiip/scholarship awards, stipends, and other monetary assistance for writing or for studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related — see Monetary Assistance. Not to be confused with any contractual advance on royalties from publishers.
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Background, backstory, “As you know, Bob,” etc — see Exposition.
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Badguys — see Characters
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Beats (story beats) and beat-sheets — see Plots&Plotting — Methodologies —Structure&Structuring
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Beginnings (What beginnings/middles/endings of novels require) see Structure&Structuring — see also Plots&Plotting
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Behavior, gesture, body language, facial expression and similar, on the part of characters (including animals, aliens, etc,) for purposes such as illuminating characterization/personality, indicating what each personally can and can’t do, and for non-wasted verbiage as Dialogue tags in place of “she said.” — see Gesture. See also — Detail & Description
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Beliefs characters unconsciously & also awarely hold, because of their culture, if it affects their attitudes in a way that affects their actions, see — Character, Detail&Description, Setting. If on the part of the author, whether prejudicial or ideal, see Sociopolitical.
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Believability — see Willing Suspension of Disbelief and Vicarious experience of reader. See also: Detail&Description — Feelings — Weak writing...
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Beta readers — see <big>Criticism, critique and critiquing</big>
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Betakos — WriteOn diaries published at the pre-DKversion5 betakos site in 2016 (roughly the last 6 months of that may not be taggable because there’s no edit-tags function on’em. WrØ-bet
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Betrayal — see Feelings — Killing — Trolleyology — Violence
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Bias — on the part of a character, see Characters; on the part of the author, see Sociopolitical.
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BIC HOK TAM (Butt In Chair! Hands On Keyboard! Typing Away Madly) — see Adages.
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Block — see Writer’s Block
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Blogs & Websites (for writing/writers) WrØ-web. *** NOTE: the first few years of diaries have many useful links, and indexers should try every link in a diary, since if they’re all 404 there’s no point in putting the WrØ-web tag on, but among the links will be more than a few going to sites that are now unsecure, so be warned and proceed with caution!
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Body language, behavior, gesture, facial expression and similar, on the part of characters (including animals, aliens, etc,) for purposes such as illuminating characterization/personality, indicating what each personally can and can’t do, and for non-wasted verbiage as Dialogue tags in place of “she said.” — see Gesture. See also — Details&Description
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Books & Magazines/Journals for writers and on writing WrØ-bks
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Bookstores — see Business
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Brainstorming WrØ-brainstorm — techniques for coming up with a lot of ideas within immediate moment or hour, individually or in writers’ groups/circles, be it to get an overall story concept, or for a specific element within a story, or for when the writing has gotten stuck, and similar. See also Idea development — Writers’ Block
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Bubble-maps/charts WrØ-bub— see also Brainstorming — Idea Development — Methodologies — Planning&Pre-writing — Plots&Plotting — Revision.
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Building (verb) — see Foreshadowing. See also World-building.
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Business/financial & other practical tasks, skills and knowledge needed by working writers and the writing life including day jobs, what writing help to pay for and what not, insurance, taxes, healthcare, daily life routines, as well as royalties, learning the markets, going to libraries or bookstores for signings or to even get books, etc. WrØ-biz See also: — Agents — Editors — Publishers & Publishing — Stuff
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Card-indexing — see Methodologies
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Categories of fiction & “category fiction” (e.g., literary, mainstream, “pulp”, science fiction, romance, history, western) — see GENRES
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Challenges/exercises using our other stock or template genre characters besides Togwogmagog WrØ-temp (“Std characters, sets & props in the Quest for the Jewel of Togwogmagog & [our other std genre practice types]” WrØ-wogmagog)
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Changing/Adapting/converting material from one form to another (e.g., playscript {teleplay, screenplay, stageplay, radioplay, etc} to novel or v.v., short stories to story-cycle or fix-up) or from one genre/category to another — WrØ-rit
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Chaptering — see Structure&Structuring
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Character/s — see also Combining Characters —Detail & Description — Feelings Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Point of View — Voice. See also Setting when it matters that beliefs & culture were/are part of who the character is and therefore what automatic or aware choices of action s/he makes, unless the character comes from a different background than the story is set in, which makes her/his beliefs, assumptions etc unique to him/her & in conflict with the setting; or when a character’s utilization of beliefs of the culture figures in the story. For character & plot pivots, see also Structure&Structuring. For any characters doing harmful, morally dubious things including killing e.g., by protags/goodguys, see Characters (including “bad” ones/villains) —Feelings — Killing — Trolleyology
— diaries on various/multiple kinds of characters — WrØ-char
— diaries on aspects & nature & dimension of character/characterization as a human being rather than a cardboard figure or mechanical gamepiece — WrØ-char. See also Detail & Description — Feelings — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor.
— diaries focused on evil, adversarial, antagonist, key-villain characters, etc WrØ-bad
— diaries focused on heroic-type characterization (key character, usually but not always POV character) — WrØ-her
— Killing off characters & death generally, including substitutes (e.g., petrification) WrØ-kil — see also Trolleyology
— main cast as a whole: protagonist individual or protag group plus the other critical/central characters — WrØ-main
— names of characters — see Names & Naming.
— Secondary characters — WrØ-sec
— Tertiary & minor characters —WrØ-tert — ‘extras’, ‘walk-ons’, ‘spear-carriers’, ‘plot fodder’, ‘redshirts, i.e., momentary and/or killable (see above —Killing off characters including death substitutes). Includes “guest-star” type characters in episodic fiction.
— combining characters WrØ-charcomb and see also Revision.
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Children’s & MiddleGrades fiction WrØ-kid — see also other GENRES for additional categories, age-levels — more than one tag may apply.
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Cinema scripts — see Playscripts
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Circles, writers’ — see Critique groups
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Classes for writing — see Studying writing
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Clichés and avoiding writing them WrØ-clich, including passive voice, head-hopping, over-used hackneyed tired old words, phrases, images, tropes, archetypes, memes, metaphors, stereotypes, prejudices, sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, generics, etc., whether regarding a genre or generally. But see also Dialogue & monologue. See also Diversity — Originality — Sociopolitical Ideals — Weak writing.
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Closing lines & closing paragraphs (of entire work or of units) — see Structure&Structuring. See also Cliché— Originality — Voice, author — Voice, character.
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Collaborating (with other writers — co-writing) WrØ-col
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Collateral Damage, e.g., by protag/goodguys in the name of high purpose, see Feelings and Killing and Trolleyology.
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College & community college writing classes — see Studying writing
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Combat & fight scenes and sequences — see Action — see also Detail & Description — Narrator & Narration — Plots & Plotting — Scenes — Upping the Stakes — Violence.
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Combining characters — WrØ-charcom — see also Characters and Revision
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Combining scenes WrØ-comb — see also Revision and Scenes
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Complexity — see Characters — Plots&Plotting — Throughlines — Upping
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Composite novel a.k.a. short story cycle or “fixup” novel composed of self-sufficient short stories and vignettes pre-existing by a single author, occasionally with the author adding more for book/novel purposes —see in GENRES e.g., Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels WrØ-short
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Composition — see Mechanics (see from Alaska State Writing Assessment.)
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Computers, programs, equipment, tools, supplies, security, tech, office, desk, woods, coffee shops, — material things, places, etc a writer needs, or finds productive and useful — see Stuff. See also Process.
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Concise-ness — see Revision — Voice, author — Word-Choice.
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Conflicts see Goals/Conflicts/Premise see also Character
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Conferences — see Professional organizations & conferences for writers
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Content editing — see Editing & Editors.
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Contests, see Writing Contests.
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Continuity — WrØ-tinu
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Copy editing — see Editing & Editors.
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Copyright — see Limits
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Converting/Adapting/changing material from one form to another (e.g., playscript {teleplay, screenplay, stageplay, radioplay, etc} to novel or v.v., short stories to story-cycle or fix-up — tag also for the specific original and target forms) or from one GENRE type to another — WrØ-rit
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CoWriting (co-writing, co-writers) see Collaborating.
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Crabit Old Bat see NicolaMorgan
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The creative process, generally and/or personally/individually — see Process — Idea Development — Originality — Rule of Twenty
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Creativity exercises/practice for skill development (aside from the weekly challenges) WrØ-exer. See also Study — Originality
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Credibility (of the story or work) see Willing Suspension of Disbelief see also Character — Detail&Description — Feelings — Setting — Research — Rules — Vicarious experience of the reader, et cetera.
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Crime genre & crime as a story element — see list of GENRES, CATEGORIES, AGE-LEVELS
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<big>Criticism, critique, and critiquing</big> (see also specifics, e.g.Detail & Description — Hooptedoodle — Word choice — etc etc etc)
— Critique groups and writers’/writing circles (reciprocal) WrØ-grp
— Critique partners, including alpha readers, beta-readers (i.e., nonreciprocal: you won’t likely be critiquing anything of theirs, they may not be writers themselves.) WrØ-part
— [How to] Critique and take criticism WrØ-crit.
<tt>NOTE:</tt>
SenSho, June 25, 2015 … I don't think of Write On! as a critique group; it's too open-to-all to establish the safe zone that writers need to discuss their work. For example, we might think someone could benefit from using fewer descriptive words, but we wouldn't say so in front of kos and everybody.
That said, I do think every writer needs some form of critique group, or beta readers... someone to tell them when they're barking up the wrong tree or perhaps not even in the forest.
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Cultural bias — see Sociopolitical.
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Culture of the given setting, in terms of how it affects the characters assumptions and actions. Use Character, Detail&Description, and Setting.
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Cutting words see Revision and Word-Choice
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Daily Kos Writing Month. dakowrimo (No abbreviated WrØ tag).See also National Novel Writing Month.
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Damage, collateral (and other harm) see Feelings and Killing and Trolleyology.
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Deadlines — use Process.
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Death of characters & death substitutes — see Killing off characters...
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Derivative — WrØ-der — fiction (or songs, opera, poetry, artwork, whatever) based upon or continuing a setting or characters originated in another author’s earlier oeuvre, novel, film, television series, etc., (e.g., completions of Jane Austen’s Sanditon, posthumous completion/collabortion on Elizabeth Peters’ The Painted Queen in her Amelia Peabody series, posthumous completions and extensions of Dorothy Sayers’ novels by Jill Paton Walsh, James Bond books by authors other than Ian Fleming, etc.) or not-exactly-fiction material (e.g., languages) the author or someone else develops from the original work. See also or instead GENRES for Converting/Adapting and Fan Fiction.
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Detail&Description WrØ-des, the important-to-the-story details and the handling of description overall. See also — Character — Exposition — Feelings — Foreshadowing/hinting — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Setting — Word choice
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Dialogue & monologue WrØ-talk including interior monologue, thoughts, etc. See also — Gesture (for dialogue tags in place of “she said” etc. — Voice
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Disbelief, Willing Suspension of — see Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Diversity — WrØ-div i.e., writing diverse characters and conflicts, writing inclusively, rather than ageist, sexist, racist, ethnocentrist, prejudiced, stereotypically, or excessive trope, meme, generic, archetypal, etc. — see also Cliché
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Do’s & Don’ts — see Rules. See also Adages.
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Drafts & Drafting WrØ-drft — see also Methodologies — Planning&Pre-writing — Revision
- clean draft, readable by others, see also Critique & Critiquing, Criticism.
- final, ready for submission, see also Letters (submission).
- polished draft, a solid working version.
- rough draft, the earliest full origination, initial form, never to subject/require others to read, no sweat equity in it yet and likely not fully intelligible to anyone but the author.
- zero draft, the very first material down “on paper”, probably disjointed in places, and with a lot of TK (“to come”) notes for information or ideas needed to close gaps of various kinds.
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Dystopian fiction see Speculative (see also Genres and overlaps)
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Editing & Editors WrØ-eds in publishing houses, magazines, and comparable professional contexts, how that process goes, as well as about editors. See also Publishers — Letters. For editing one’s own work, see Drafts&Drafting — Revision.
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Eloquence — see Hooptedoodle — See also — GENRES — Word choice
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Emotional feelings and sensory/physical feelings/perceptions — see Feelings.
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Empathy — see Feelings.
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Endings — see Structure&Structuring.
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Environment, equipment, tools, supplies, computers, programs, etc — see Stuff
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Epistolary novels/novellas/novellettes — fiction written as a series of documents, usually letters, but also diary entries, logbook or journal entries, speeches, newspaper clippings, emails, tweets, radio or television recordings, blogs. WrØ-let.
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Errors in writing skill & technique — see Weak Writing — see also Clichés — Mechanics
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Events & incidents in plots & scenes — see Action — Plots & Plotting — Scenes
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Evocation of ambiance/atmosphere or scene or book or mood of character, rather than straightforward literal Detail & Description — see Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Word choice
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Exercises/practice/games for creativity & writing skill-development — WrØ-exer. See also study.
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Exposition as/for background, backstory, info-dumps, world-building, “As you know, Bobs” etc. — WrØ-exp. See also Character — Detail&Description — Dialogue — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator&Narration — Setting
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External plot vs internal plot — see Plots & Plotting
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‘Extras’, ‘walk-ons’, ‘spear-carriers’, ‘plot fodder’, ‘redshirts’, including kill-able — see Tertiary & minor characters. See also Characters — Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Facial expression, body language, behavior, gesture and similar, on the part of characters (including animals, aliens, etc,) for purposes such as illuminating characterization/personality, indicating what each personally can and can’t do, and for non-wasted verbiage as Dialogue tags in place of “she said.” — see Gesture. See also — Detail&Description
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Fan Fiction — WrØ-ff — see also GENRES
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Fantasy including high fantasy & magical realism (not Traditional) WrØ-fant — see also GENRES.
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FAQ — WrØ-faq questions often asked of writers, and that beginning writers ask. See also Agents — Business — Editors — Publishers&Publishing — Readership — Stuff
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Feedback — see Criticism, critique, and critiquing.
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Feelings WrØ-feel — all the following
- evoking emotion &/or vicarious bodily sensation in readers so readers care about & identify with characters;
- portraying characters’ emotional & sensory experience to reader;
- specific moods (sympathy, pathos, warmth, appreciation, delight, surprise, excitement, anxiety, nervousness, exhaustion, tedium, hunger (including metaphorical), loss, sorrow, rage, annoyance, hate, love, etc etc.
See also: — Action — Character — Humor — Detail & Description — Dialogue — Hooptedoodle — Humor — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Vicarious experience of reader - Voice — Word choice
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Fellowship awards, scholarships, stipends, and other monetary assistance for writing or for studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related — see Monetary Assistance.
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Fiction genres, categories, age-levels — see Genres
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Fiction in general, i.e., about fiction. WrØ-fic
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Fight & combat scenes and sequences — see Action — see also Detail & Description — Narrator & Narration — Plots & Plotting — Scenes — Upping the Stakes — Violence.
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Filmscripts — see Playscripts.
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First Ever WriteOn WrØ-FIRSTEVER — the diary that started it all, “New Year’s Resolutions for Writers” Thursday January 01, 2009. To read the series in sequence, go to SENSIBLE… in § 3. TAGS & their links, alphabetically below.
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Fix-up or composite novel a.k.a., short-story cycle — a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories, vignettes, etc., by a single author, occasionally the author adding more for book publication purposes. See in GENRES — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels WrØ-short and other tags may also be appropriate.
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Flashbacks, flashforwardses, flashsidewayses WrØ-fla — see also category Literary Devices & Techniques.
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Flawed writing skill & technique — see Weak writing — see also Clichés — Mechanics
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Fluency of composition, sentences, paragraphs etc — see Mechanics (see also Alaska State Writing Assessment)
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Foreshadowing/hinting — WrØ-hint the delicate technique of layering, planting, seeding, sowing, etc subtle but crucially necessary details, incidents, ideas, speech, etc all along the way, especially far enough ahead and just frequently enough in advance of appearance of whatever character behavior or event etc that has to be unanticipated and surprising yet also feel absolutely natural, uncontrived, and inevitable beyond any other plot possibilities. And it has to be non-deus-or-devil-ex-machina. See also Detail&Description — Character — Exposition — Narrator/narration — Setting — Feelings and etc. The key task/phase for making sure of this is during revision.
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Game of 20 — see Methodologies
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games/writing games — see Exercises
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GENRES, Subgenres, categories, age-levels, formats, types, etc & the overlaps thereof::
(see also Challenges/exercises using our other stock or template genre characters besides Togwogmagog and“Std characters, sets & props in the Quest for the Jewel of Togwogmagog & [our other std genre practice types]” ) — see also Narrator & Narration — Readership — Voice — Word Choice etc in relation to the kind of language typical for a given genre.
| <big>For diaries about the idea or methods or etc of a particular genre/category-of-fiction, tag them WrØ-gen plus whatever else is applicable. For diaries about several genres and blended genres, do the same!</big> |
— Adventure/action WrØ-adac (no diaries on this yet).
— Alternate History — use Fantasy.
— Children’s & Middlegrades’ WrØ-kid
— Classic (fiction of any type that’s still read 70 yrs or so after it was first published) WrØ-clas (no diaries on this yet)
— Composite novel — see Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) WrØ-short
— Converting/Adapting/changing material from one form to another (e.g., playscript {teleplay, screenplay, stageplay, radioplay, etc} to novel or v.v., short stories to story-cycle or fix-up — tag also for the specific original and target forms) or from one GENRE type to another — WrØ-rit
— Creative nonfiction e.g., Memoir, below.
— Crime/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller WrØ-mys unless no real mystery = Action/Adventure or some other kind. For romantic suspense use both tags.
— Derivative — WrØ-der — fiction (or songs, opera, poetry, artwork, etc) based upon or continuing a setting or characters originated in another author’s earlier oeuvre, novel, film, television series, etc., (e.g., completions of Jane Austen’s Sanditon, posthumous completion/collabortion on Elizabeth Peters’ The Painted Queen in her Amelia Peabody series, posthumous completions and extensions of Dorothy Sayers’ novels by Jill Paton Walsh, James Bond books by authors other than Ian Fleming, etc.etc.) or not-exactly-fiction material (e.g., languages) the author or someone else develops from the original work. See also Converting/Adapting and Fan Fiction.
— Episodic fiction, most commonly in television and in series of books and films, see playscript — short-story-cycle — and Tertiary Characters in Characters
— Epistolary novels (composed solely of letters) WrØ-let
— Fan Fiction including other derivative kinds — WrØ-ff
— Fantasy incl’g high fant, alternate history, magical realism, etc. WrØ-fant See also Traditional below.
— Fixup/composite novels a.k.a. short story cycle, see separately Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels, below.
— High fantasy — see Fantasy.
— Historical WrØ-hst NOT HIST nor HIS) See also Traditional.
— Horror WrØ-hrr
— Literary WrØ-lit — this is most about quality and not being readily pigeon-holed in a genre. See also Classic.
— Magic, use Fantasy or Traditional, whichever is more accurate.
— Magical realism WrØ-fant
— Mainstream (not actually a genre because potentially all-inclusive but signifying broad popularity beyond genre as well as “real life”-like fiction, not necessarily of the quality to be considered literary). WrØ-str (no diaries yet)
— Memoir (nonfiction, but still storytelling) WrØ-mem (no diaries yet)
— Middle-Grades readership/genre (see Childrens...)— WrØ-kid
— Mystery — see Crime/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
— Novellas, Novelettes, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes with shared setting or character[s], a.k.a. short story cycle) see also ShortStories WrØ-short
— Novels (for diaries that deal with what a full-length novel needs or does or involves, as distinct from shorter fiction and from other forms of storytelling, e.g., memoir (which is nonfiction), film, live theater, biography (ibid.) or etc. WrØ-nov (no diaries yet — almost everything in the index is about some aspect or other of a novel.)
— Playscripts WrØ-act — radioplays, screenplays, stageplays, teleplays, etc.
— Realism — use that tag for style (see below) and also WrØ-gen
— Roman à clef WrØ-clef — memoir or real-life events or true story written as fiction.
— Romance WrØ-rom. For romanic suspense, use all the tags that suit. (See “Suspense” below.)
— Short stories, see also Novellas, Novelettes,and fix-ups/composite novels above WrØ-short
— Speculative fiction WrØ-sf — includ’ science-fiction/Sci-Tech/Futurism/Dystopia. For AlternateHistory use Fantasy.
— Spy genre —use Crime/Mystery/SuspenseThriller or Action/Adventure, or both, whatever alone or in combo fits best for the specific case.
— Suspense as a genre, see Crime/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller or Action/Adventure, whichever is most appropriate, or both if that’s best. AS A STORY ELEMENT- WrØ-susp. For romantic suspense, use all the tags that suit.
— Thriller — Crime/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller or Action/Adventure or/and whatever other tags are applicable from among this genre list.
— Traditional WrØ-trad — Folk or fairy tales or folk history, including retelling of them, and including literary fairy tales and fantasy that have become traditional across more than a century. (e.g., Cinderella, Pinnochio). Also use Fantasy if it suits.
— “Upmarket” — use whichever tags are more descriptive.
— Urban — use Fantasy or Mystery/Crime/Suspense/Thriller or Speculative or etc, whichever suits best.
— Western/Outdoor/Rural/Natural world WrØ-west or see Action/Adventure
— Young adult fiction WrØ-ya
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Gesture — WrØ-ges— facial expression, body language, behavior, hand motions and similar, on the part of characters (including animals, aliens, etc,) for illuminating reactions, responses, characterization/personality, or indicating what each personally can and can’t do, and for non-wasted verbiage as Dialogue tags in place of “she said.” See also — Detail&Description
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Give the Reader a Break — in Rules.
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Give the Reader Some Credit —
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Goals/Conflicts/Premise WrØ-go (what makes characters go, what makes the story go) See also Characters — Ideas — Plots and Plotting.
Wikipedia: conflict (narrative) In works of narrative, conflict is the challenge main characters need to solve to achieve their goals.
Traditionally, conflict is a major literary element that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty to if the goal would be achieved. A narrative is not limited to a single conflict. While conflicts may not always resolve in narrative, the resolution of a conflict creates closure or fulfillment, which may or may not occur at a story's end…. ;-)
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Grammar — see Mechanics and Character.
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Groups — see Critique & Critiqueing, above, see Writers’/writing groups and Writing partners and Professional organizations & conferences.
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Guest-hosted WriteOns WrØ-guest plus actual topics.
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Gunn, James — see James E Gunn, “teh guru”
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Guns on the wall — see Foreshadowing/hinting — Planning&Pre-writing — Revision.
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Guru/”Teh Guru” — see James E. Gunn.
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Harm, dubious moral acts etc e.g., by protags/good guys in the name of high purpose, etc. see Characters — Feelings — Killing — Trolleyology.
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Head-hopping — see [character’s] Point of View — Weak writing
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Hero’s Journey — see Monomyth
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Hinting — see Foreshadowing/hinting
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Historical WrØ-hst (OBSERVE: IT’S not HIST nor HIS) see also Genres (listed) for diaries dealing with more than one or two.
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Hooptedoodle — lyric, flamboyant, or wordy prose (Steinbeck’s self-abnegating term for writing with imagery and metaphor for the pleasure of language or for mood/ambience or for description that relies on evocation rather than literal Detail & Description: in his Sweet Thursday are two chapters entitled Hooptedoodle I and Hooptedoodle II. Elmore Leonard advises against such writing; he also says he read every word of those chapters of Steinbeck’s.) WrØ-hoop — See also — Character — Detail & Description — Feelings — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Voice — Word choice
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How to critique and take criticism WrØ-crit (see also Criticism, critique, & critiquing,
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How to get published — see Publishers&Publishing.
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Humor, writing it/with it WrØ-hum — see also Feelings.
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Ideals (Sociopolitical) — WrØ-ideal
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Ideas/ Idea Development — WrØ-devel — recognizing/having story ideas, testing for workability, incubating, nurturing, even knowing when to quit, including Rule of Twenty (upstartcrowliterary re: Bruce Coville et al.) see also Brainstorming — Originality — Writers’ Block
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Ideas worked on at some length (i.e., manuscripts) that turned out to be unworkable projects — see Trunk Novels.
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Imagery & metaphor as work-material for story ambiance/atmosphere and character mood WrØ-im, rather than for Hooptedoodle language solely for the pleasure of it. See also Character — Cliché — Detail & Description — Feelings — Narrator & Narration — Setting — Word choice
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Impossibilities & reader tolerance — see Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Incidents/events in plots & scenes — see Action — Detail & Description — Plots & Plotting — Scenes
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Inclusiveness — see Diversity. See also Characters — Clichés — Sociopolitical Ideals
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Index & tagging project for Write On! WrØ-en
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Info-dump/infodump — see Detail & Description and Exposition
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Ingermanson Snowflake — see also Methodologies and Planning & Pre-writing
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Interior monologue & thoughts — see Dialogue
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Interiority — see Feelings.
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Internal plot vs external plot — see Plots & Plotting
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James E. Gunn wik— the writer and teacher Sensible Shoes refers to as Teh Guru in having been a student of his (not to be confused with actor/director James Gunn) founded the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas, which also has writing workshops, etc., and where Kij Johnson wik is on faculty. Use tag JamesEGunn (linked in Section 3)
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The Jewel of Togwogmagog — see Togwogmagog
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Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey see Monomyth
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Journal — WrØ-jou any of several uses a writers’ journal fulfills. One is a work-habits-&-Methodologies tool for tracking tasks and progress/steps/phases in manuscript work, especially Revision phase, to keep clear on what’s done and what still needs doing, exactly where stopped & picking up, or what prevented work any given day that happens instead. Another use is for carrying everywhere to jot down ideas, phrases, terminology, descriptions, etc that come up across the day, & other practice or collection notes. Etc. — see also Process.
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Kids’ lit — see list of GENRES, CATEGORIES, AGE-LEVELS.
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Kij Johnson, writer, and member of faculty at Univ of Kansas Gunn Ctr (see James E. Gunn, above).
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Killing off characters & death generally including death-substitutes. WrØ-kil and Trolleyology.
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Language skills — see Mechanics (see also Alaska State… )
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Language style — see Genres — Hooptedoodle — Word-Choice.
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Layering — the early seeding of information necessary to make later developments plausible and organic. See: Detail&Description — Foreshadowing/hinting — Characters — Feelings — Setting.
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Legalities authors and works are subject to — see Limits.
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Letters — WrØ-ltr — Queries & query letters (and components), submissions (submitting material), and rejection notices, with/from editors or agents — see also Pitches. See also Epistolary novels, and GENRE section.
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Limits — WrØ-lim — censorship, plagiarizing, erotica vas pornography, copyright, First Serial Rights, rights reversion, and anything else that might constrain or protect what an author can put on the page and what the various authorities (government, publishers, etc.) can do with it once it’s there.
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Line editing — see Editing & Editors.
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Literary Devices & Techniques — WrØ-ltd — e.g., frame story/envelope, McGuffins/MacGuffins/Chekov’s Gun/PlotCoupons, Flashbacks/flashforwards/flashsideways (“meanwhile, back at the ranch”), Epistolary novel, etc.
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Literary fiction — see GENRE section.
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Literary Agents — see Agents
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Live theatre scripts — see Playscripts
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Loose drafting — see Drafts&drafting. — Methodologies — Planning&Pre-writing — Revision
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Lost Jewel of Togwogmagog — see Togwogmagog
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Lyricism — see Hooptedoodle.
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MacGuffin/McGuffin —
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Manuscripts that turned out to be unworkable projects — see Trunk Novels.
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the Market, marketing — see Business — see also Readership.
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Mary Sue characters & stories —WrØ-mar— see also Characters, Main
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Mechanics of correct writing/composition, e.g., spelling, grammar, punctuation, phrasing, paragraphing, organization, etc. WrØ-mech (see from Alaska State Writing Assessment.)
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Memoir written factually WrØ-mem (no diaries yet); written as fiction (as a Roman à clef) WrØ-clef — see also Nonfiction.
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Metaphor and imagery see Imagery & metaphor
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Methodologies WrØ-out — Outlining, card-indexes, drawings, sketches, diagrams, bubble-maps, Ingermanson snowflake, spreadsheets, walls with pages or index cards spread across with colored string or yarns connecting related issues etc. Also “pantsing” vs planning/intuition vs being methodical — See also Drafts&Drafting — Idea Development — Journal — Planning & PreWriting — Process and Revision
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Middle-grades & children’s fiction see Children’s & Middle-grades’ Fiction. see Genres & categories (listed) for diaries dealing with more than one or two.
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Middles (what beginnings-middles-endings of novels require) see Structure&Structuring.
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Minor characters — see Tertiary & minor characters. See also Characters — Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Minor incidents — see Action, Detail & Description,
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Mistakes in writing skill & technique — see Weak writing — see also Clichés — Mechanics
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Monetary Assistance — Fellowship awards, scholarships, stipends, and other monetary assistance for writing or for studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related. Not to be confused with any contractual advance on royalties from publishers. — WrØ-mon
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Monologue — see Dialogue
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Monomyth/Hero’s Journey (Joseph Campbell, Maureen Murdock, Christopher Vogler, et al.) — WrØ-her — see also Togwogmagog
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Mood of character, ambiance of scene or book — see Character — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor. See also Detail & Description — Feelings
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Moral of story/Theme — see Goals/Conflicts/Premise — Sociopolitical Ideals
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Morally dubious/wrong/harmful impacts e.g. by protags/goodguys see Characters (including “bad” ones/villains) —Feelings — Killing — Trolleyology
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MorganNicola see NicolaMorgan
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Motivations — see Goals/Conflicts/Premise see also Character
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Movie scripts — see Playscripts
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Musical theater “books”/scripts — see Playscripts
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Mystery as a genre or story element — see list of GENRES, CATEGORIES, AGE-LEVELS
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Names & Naming of books & stories (i.e., their titles), places, objects, Characters etc. — WrØ-name (including use of the Rule of Twenty (upstartcrowliterary re: Bruce Coville et al.) to compose names with unique flavor specific to your story).
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Nanowrimo a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month (November) nanowrimo (No abbreviated WrØ tag). See Section C for all associated tags.
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Narrator&narration, including ‘narrative consciousness’, the tense of the piece (past or present tense) and voice of narrator WrØ-nar — See also Detail & Description — Exposition — Feelings — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Point of View — Setting — Voice — Word choice
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NicolaMorgan the Crabbit Old Bat who ran this blogspot highly recommended by SenSho for having miles more in it than the name suggests. http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com/ — switched to a new venue in late 2023: https://nicolamorgansbrain.substack.com/ — tag diaries with her links in them WrØ-web
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Nonfiction, & writing of (e.g., biography, family history, history, cookbooks {a popular derivative of mystery series & romance series, etc...) WrØ-non — see also Memoir and Roman à clef,
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Novelettes — see in Genres — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) WrØ-short
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Novellas — see in Genres — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) WrØ-short
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Opening lines & opening paragraphs (of entire work or of units) — see Structure&Structuring. See also Cliché— Originality — Voice, author and Voice, character.
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Organizations for writers — see Professional organizations & conferences for writers and see also — National Novel Writing Month — Writers’/writing groups — Writing partners — Workshops.
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Originality — WrØ-orig including/see also: Rule of Twenty (upstartcrowliterary re: Bruce Coville et al.) — Idea Development — Process for the creative process.
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Over-use[d] or hackneyed or tired old words, phrases, ideas, metaphors etc, including tropes, memes, images, stereotypes, sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, prejudices, generics, archetypes, whether regarding a genre or generally — Cliché. See also Dialogue & monologue — Diversity — Imagery & metaphor — Originality — Sociopolitical Ideals— Weak writing
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Pacing WrØ-pac
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Pantsing (i.e., seat-of-the-pants writing) see Methodologies.
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Paragraph and sentence fluency — (see from Alaska State Writing Assessment) see Mechanics and Structure&Structuring.
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Partial (partial/part of mss occasionally requested by an editor or agent) — see Letters.
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Passage of time indicated in a story without going into detail see Detail & Description — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Word choice
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Past tense storytelling — see Narrator & Narration
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Phrases, words or images over-used in the genre or in fiction or other writing generally, see Cliché.
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Phrasing — see Mechanics
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Piracy, plagiarism, rip-offs, theft of writing — see Scams. See also Limits.
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Pitches (pitching/promoting mss etc in person to editors or agents) WrØ-pitch. For queries & query letters (and components), submissions (submitting material), and rejection notices, with/from editors or agents — see Letters
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Pivots/turning-points of plot and character — see Character and Plots&Plotting and Structure&Structuring
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Plagiarizing FROM us — see Scams. Us using other writers’ work — see Limits.
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Planning & Pre-writing WrØ-pre including research, see also Methodologies
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Planting/seeding/sowing see Foreshadowing/hinting.
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Plausibility — see Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Playscripts — script, teleplay, screenplay, stageplay, radioplay etc — WrØ-act
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Plot Fodder, ‘walk-ons’, ‘extras’, ‘spear-carriers’, ‘redshirts’, and killable characters — see Characters — Tertiary & minor characters — Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Plot-pivots — see Plots&Plotting and Structure&Structuring (for character pivots, see also Character)
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Plots & plotting — WrØ-plot including internal/character vs external/realm plot (e.g., Monomyth) and see also Scenes — Structure&Structuring. For subplots, i.e., those besides the protag’s main drive, see Throughlines. Regarding both, see also Character[s]
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Poetry & verse — both as a writing form and also for using in fiction. WrØ-ver
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Point of View WrØ-pov — from whose viewpoint or thru’ which character’s eyes the narrator shows the story unfolding. Usually it’s the protag with a relatively invisible narrator. Sometimes it’s another character, a visible one, e.g., Dr Watson. Less commonly in modern novels, the narrator is a commentator without being a character, perhaps the author and perhaps the “unreliable narrator”, maybe other kinds. See also Narrator & narration —
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Practicalities of the writing life — see Business/financial & other practicalities and Stuff
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Practice/exercises for creativity & writing skill development — WrØ-exer. See also Journal[ing] — Methodologies — Study.
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Preditors & Editors website — combined tag with Writer Beware and Absolute Write. These are in almost all diaries.
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Prejudices — see Clichés. See also — Sociopolitical Ideals. For having characters whose role requires/involves prejudices, biases, or also ideals. See also Characters generally — Diversity — Weaknesses of writing
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Premise — see Goals/Conflicts/Premise
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Pre-writing see Planning & Pre-writing
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Present tense storytelling — see Narrator & Narration
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Process, authors/writer’s WrØ-proc — “how do you make yourself write”, writing habits & techniques for imagination, creativity, productivity, & way of thinking etc, methods and approaches writers need to adopt, adapt or develop for themselves individually, New Year’s writer’s resolutions, etc. See also Methodologies — Stuff, — Writer’s Block.
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Professional organizations & conferences for writers WrØ-org
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Proofing/proofreading — see Drafts&drafting — Editing & Editors — Revision.
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Protagonists see Characters, main
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Publishers and Publishing WrØ-pub — including topics such as “how to get published”, vanity presses, self-publishing, publicity after book release, publishing opportunities/submission calls, and all related. See also Agents — Editors — Queries. Note: DK has tags SelfPublishing, linked below in Section 3 part S, among a range of others linked in section 3 part P
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Punctuation and other mechanics of composition and correct writing, e.g., spelling, grammar, paragraphing, etc — see Mechanics.
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Queries & query letters (and components), submissions (submitting material), and rejection notices, with/from editors or agents — see Letters
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Quest for the Sacred Lost Jewel of Togwogmagog — see Togwogmagog
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Questions — planting questions in the reader’s mind to sustain interest. See Scenes and Suspense
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quests — see Monomyth (hero’s quest)
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Quotations about or by writers and writing see Adages.
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Racism — see Clichés. See also Diversity — Originality — Sociopolitical Ideals — Weak writing.
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Radioplays/scripts — see Playscripts
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Readership WrØ-read — the readers you’re writing for, your “audience”, first being/see also Agents — Editors — Genres — Market (Business)
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Real-life events or story written as fiction/Roman à clef WrØ-clef — see Nonfiction for written factually.
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Realism — WrØ-real both as style and regarding verisimilitude. See also Detail & Description — Genre
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‘Redshirts’, walk-ons, ‘extras’, ‘spear-carriers’, plot-fodder, including kill-able. See — Characters — Killing off characters including death substitutes — Tertiary & minor characters.
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Rejections & rejection letters — see Letters.
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Repulsion and tension between characters and between ideas. See — Characters — Goals/Conflict/Premise
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Research — see — Planning & PreWriting
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Revision WrØ-rev See also — Foreshadowing/hinting and all other devices, techniques, corrections, repairs, and polishing imaginable!
— combining characters WrØ-charcomb. See also Characters
— combining scenes WrØ-comb. see also Scenes. And see also Action — Incidents/Events — Plots & Plotting
— cutting wordcount, word-choice, & related — WrØ-word
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Re-writing see Revision
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Rip-offs, piracy, plagiarism, scams, theft of writing — see Scams.
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Roman à clef Memoir or real-life events or true story written as fiction (see Memoir and Nonfiction for written factually) WrØ-clef
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Rule of Twenty attributed by many writes to a workshop by children’s author Bruce Coville — WrØ-20 — how many ideas you have to come up with before you start reaching some really good, really original ones — see also Idea Development — Originality — Rules
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Rules of writing and related, according to individual authoritative writers, critics, publishers, editors etc. WrØ-rule and also search DK by author name e.g., JohnGardner, Vonnegut... See also Mechanics
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Sayings about writing and about writers or by them — see Adages. See also Rules.
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Scams WrØ-scam
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Scenes WrØ-scen — Use this tag for all discussions of scene construction & types, plus also specific types, e.g./see also: Action/Incident — Combining Scenes — Dialogue & monologue — Walking Scenes. (Passages consisting solely of Narration or Detail & Description with no characters doing anything aren’t scenes — there’s nothing for the reader to see them doing “onstage”, although they are … passages of text.)
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Scholarships, fellowship awards, stipends, and other monetary assistance for life expenses while writing or for/while studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related — see Monetary Assistance. Not to be confused with any contractual advance on royalties from publishers.
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Screenplays — see Playscript.
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Scripts (Play/script/teleplay/screenplay/stageplay/radioplay/etc) see Playscript
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Secondary characters — see also Characters — WrØ-sec
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Self-publishing — see Publishers&Publishing and general DK tag SelfPublishing.
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Sense-engagement (the 5 senses & others) — see Detail & Description and Feelings. See also Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Word choice
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Sentence and paragraph fluency see Mechanics
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Sequencing — see Plots & Plotting — Scenes — Structure&Structuring — Throughlines.
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Setting WrØ-set — see also Planning&Prewriting for the research — Detail & Description — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration
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Sexism — see Clichés. See also Diversity — Originality — Sociopolitical Ideals
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Shelved manuscripts, unworkable projects, trunk novels — WrØ-ex
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Short story cycle — see in Genres — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) WrØ-short
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Short stories — see in Genres — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) WrØ-short — see also Structure.
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“Show, Don’t Tell” — see any or all: Action — Detail & Description — Dialogue — Exposition — Narrator & Narration, etc. etc.
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Snowflake — see Ingermanson Snowflake — see also Methodologies — Planning & Pre-writing
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Sociopolitical idealism in fiction — WrØ-ideal. Includes the writer avoiding prejudices, cultural bias, etc, as well as writing idealistically. See also Character — Diversity — Vicarious experience of reader— Word Choice etc. Ref. wik Transportation theory in Psychology
“Narrative transportation theory proposes that when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes and intentions change to reflect that story. The mental state of narrative transportation can explain the persuasive effect of stories on people, who may experience narrative transportation when certain contextual and personal preconditions are met, as Green and Brock[1] postulate for the transportation-imagery model. As Van Laer, de Ruyter, Visconti, and Wetzels[2] elaborate further, narrative transportation occurs whenever the story-receiver experiences a feeling of entering a world evoked by the narrative because of empathy for the story characters and imagination of the story plot...
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Sowing/seeding/planting see Foreshadowing/hinting.
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‘Spear-carriers’, walk-ons’, ‘extras’, ‘redshirts’, plot-fodder see Tertiary & minor characters — see also Characters and Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Speculative fiction incl’g science-fiction/Sci-Tech/Futurism/Dystopia WrØ-sf — see also Genres (listed) for diaries dealing with more than one or two.
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Spy genre — see Crime/Mystery/Suspense or
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Spelling and other conventions of composition, fluency, and correct writing, e.g., grammar, punctuation, paragraphing, etc. — see Mechanics (see from Alaska State Writing Assessment.)
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Stageplays — see Playscript
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Stakes (what’s at stake, why it matters) — see Upping the stakes. See also Goals/Conflicts/Premise — Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
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Stereotypes — see Cliché. See also Diversity — Originality — Sociopolitical Ideals
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Stipends, fellowship awards, scholarships, and other monetary assistance for life expenses while writing or for studying writing or for writing workshop fees and related — see Monetary Assistance. Not to be confused with any contractual advance on royalties from publishers.
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Story see Character — Goals/Conflicts/Premise — Idea development — Plots & Plotting…
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Story beats — see Plots&Plotting and Methodologies
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Story cycle — see in Genres — Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels
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Structure&Structuring —WrØ-end— structure of entire novel/story, of individual scenes, “beats”, “beat-sheets”, what beginnings-middles-endings of novels require, chaptering for best effect, opening and closing lines (“telegraph lines”] of any unit or the whole, opening and closing paragraphs ditto, necessary phases a story/character may have to traverse in order for it to make sense and “work” from reader perspective. A story-cycle or “fix-up” (see above) is another book structure vs more standard novel. See also Drafts&Drafting — Plots& Plotting — Revision
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Studying writing WrØ-study — fairly disciplined learning/practicing approaches including resources such as community college classes, university auditing or enrolling. Diaries about or citing writing teachers share this tag. See also: Books & Magazines/Journals for writers and on writing, [How to critique & take] Criticism... Critique Groups, Critique Partners, Process (including work habits), Professional organizations & conferences Writers’ Workshops
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Stuff WrØ-stuf — Computers, programs, equipment, tools, supplies, security, tech, office, desk, reference books & materials, even woods to walk, coffee shops to write in, time management, the foods in nutrition and diet that help — i.e., the material objects, places, things, resources any individual writer finds productive, useful or necessary for writing. See also Business —
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Style of writing — see GENRE section (each genre and subgenre tends to require a style that works best for the traits that make the genre/subgenre distinctive.) See also Hooptedoodle.
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Style/voice of author see Voice
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Subplots see Throughlines. See also Character[s] — Plots&Plotting
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Submissions & submitting — see Letters for queries/query letters (and components), submissions (submitting material), and rejection notices, with/from editors or agents — see also Pitches — see Publishers and Publishing for submission calls.
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Succinct-ness — see Hooptedoodle — Revision — Voice, author — Word-choice.
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Summary of novel or story — see query Letters — Pitches
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Suspense WrØ-susp — i.e., a necessary element in why the story matters to characters and to readers. For the genre, see Crime/Mystery/Suspense. See also Goals/Conflicts/Premise.
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Suspension of Disbelief see Willing Suspension of Disbelief. See also Goals/Conflicts/Premise.
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Synopsis — see query Letters — Pitches
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Syntax — see Mechanics
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Tagging project for Write On index — WrØ-en
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Teachers of writing — see Studying.
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Teh guru — James E. Gunn (see that entry above).
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Telegraph lines (at start & end of units or paragraphs) see Structure&Structuring.
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Teleplays — see Playscript
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Tenses — storytelling in the past, present or presumably future tense — see Narrator&Narration.
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Tension — For tension in the sense of Suspense as a necessary element in why the story matters to characters and to readers, see that heading. For the tension between characters, ideas, etc., see Goals/Conflict/Premise.
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Tertiary & minor characters ( ‘extras’, ‘walk-ons’, ‘spear-carriers’, ‘redshirts’, ‘plot fodder’, including kill-able...) WrØ-tert — see also Characters and Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Theater scripts — see Playscript
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Theme — see Goals/Conflicts/Premise. For thematic elements (e.g., archetypes, cultural or familial myths, allusions, allegory, etc etc) see Planning&PreWriting
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Theft of writing — see Scams
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Thoughts/thinking (character’s) — see Dialogue & monologue
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Throughlines — WrØ-thru — see also Character[s] — Plots&Plotting — Revision — Setting. From this diary:
...Although reading a whole lot is important ..., there are some things that we can’t pick up just from reading. I had to have throughlines explained to me by the editor who acquired my first novel.
Essentially, every aspect of character and plot is going to be dealt with repeatedly over the course of a novel. Each needs its own throughline. In this case, one of my main characters has just lost her mother and the other has a father who is missing at sea. This isn’t something that can just be dropped into the story and forgotten. The characters are going to keep thinking about it. Their feelings about it have to be dealt with.
If I hadn’t added the throughlines, readers would have noticed. They might not have noticed what it was they were noticing. They might have said “the characters lack depth” or “the characters aren’t believable...”
and this one:
...A throughline is any element that develops over the course of a story. A throughline can be:
- a subplot
- a mystery which is gradually unraveled
- a change in the world of the story (eg, in the Potterverse, the Wizarding World’s growing realization that Voldy has returned)
- a character’s growth (including secondary characters)
- a changing relationship between characters
and many other things….
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“Ticking clock” — see Suspense.
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Time passage indication without going into detail of anything (insignificant) meaning happening, see Detail & Description — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration
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Titles — see Names & Naming and see also Structure&Structuring (a title is the very beginning)
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Togwogmagog — The Quest for the Sacred Lost Jewel of Togwogmagog — a sort of Monomyth practice realm with paradigm characters, conflicts/goals and other standard fiction elements in a fantasy setting usable for a wider range of writing tasks/assignments/challenges; plus other paradigms typical of mystery, historical, YA, & other genres. Many such diaries are tagged Togwogmagog; all are/should be also tagged WrØ-tog. “Std characters, sets & props in the Quest for the Jewel of Togwogmagog & [our other std genre practice types]” is also at WrØ-wogmagog
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Throughlines WrØ-thru see also Foreshadowing and Revision
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Transom alligators — WrØ-transomalligator. And see also — Upping.
you can make anything at all happen in your story as long as you diligently and flawlessly provide the environment in which it can believably happen.
If you don't do this, you get an unbelievable story.
In Jack M. Bickham's book The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes (And How to Avoid Making Them), Chapter 23 is entitled "Don't Drop Alligators Through the Transom". According to Mr. Bickham, a certain author, wanting to raise the stakes at the end of her scene, dropped an alligator through the transom.
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Trolleyology — A DK tag used by James Wells for his guest-hosted WriteOn: link in section 3. The diary begins.
Our hero needs to save the entire city from fiery destruction, and the only way to accomplish that is to push a trusting friend onto the tracks in front of the oncoming bomb trolley.
Good call?
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Tropes — see Over-use. See also Themes.
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True events or story written as fiction/Roman à clef WrØ-clef (see Nonfiction for written factually)
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Trunk novels, shelved manuscripts, unworkable projects — WrØ-ex
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Turning points of plot — see Plots&Plotting and Structure&Structuring. Of characters, see also Characters
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Untagged — WrØ-unt — for diaries an indexer/tagger isn’t sure how to tag, such as if too many topics to figure out which are covered usefully, or it seems very general, OR it addresses topics ABSOLUTELY NOT in SECTION 2 that should be (see SEC.1 point B). Etc. This tag makes those diaries findable for SenSho or mettle to go help, providing the indexer kosmails to mettle about using it. A diary with other tags never needs WrØ-unt unless there’s also something in it looking really valuable for which no tags exist — specify it in yr kosmail.
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Unworkable projects, Trunk novels, shelved manuscripts — WrØ-ex
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Upping the stakes, the plot complexity, the obstacles — WrØ-up — whether because innate to the story or characters, or because the story needs more. Lamely done, this is a “Transom Alligator.” See also Suspense and Willing Suspension of Disbelief
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Urgency, sense of — see Suspense.
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Values in fiction — see Sociopolitical
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Verisimilitude — see Realism
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Verse and poetry — see Poetry & verse.
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Vicarious experience of reader — for about it: WrØ-vic . (For creating it, see Character — Feelings — Detail & Description — Imagery & Metaphor — Sociopolitical Ideal — Willing suspension of disbelief — Word choice etc. etc.) Ref. wik Transportation theory in Psychology using travel as a metaphor for reading:
“Narrative transportation theory proposes that when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes and intentions change to reflect that story. The mental state of narrative transportation can explain the persuasive effect of stories on people, who may experience narrative transportation when certain contextual and personal preconditions are met, as Green and Brock[1] postulate for the transportation-imagery model. As Van Laer, de Ruyter, Visconti, and Wetzels[2] elaborate further, narrative transportation occurs whenever the story-receiver experiences a feeling of entering a world evoked by the narrative because of empathy for the story characters and imagination of the story plot...
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Villains see Characters, bad
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Violence WrØ-vio — see also Action and Killing off characters & death generally and Trolleyology and Upping the Stakes
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Visualizing characters, objects, places, see Process and Methodologies.
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Vocabulary see Word-Choice
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Voice
— of narrator — see Narrator/narration — Word choice
— of author WrØ-vocauth See also Originality — Word choice
— of character WrØ-vocchar
See also: Character — Detail & Description — Feelings — Imagery & Metaphor — Point of View — Word choice
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Walk-ons, ‘extras’, spear-carriers, redshirts, plot-fodder, including kill-able — see Tertiary & minor characters — Characters — Killing off characters including death substitutes.
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Walking scenes WrØ-walk — the scenes that follow action scenes (in wik the combination is called Scene-and-sequel): these are quieter, slower-paced, where your characters assess the consequences of the action scene, react to it, and/or react to the changes that have come about because of it. Quite often, the characters are walking, trudging, riding etc away from where the action happened, altho’ not always, but whatever they are doing, those doings are less central in walking scenes than the evidence of what they’re thinking, feeling, etc.’ even when what they’re doing is crucial to the moment. — See also Scenes, construction & types, — Action — Dialogue & monologue
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Wall-uses such as Bubble-maps, string-chart, outlining, layout of all pages, etc -see Methodologies. See also Revision and Planning&Prewriting.
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Weak writing,and other known flaws, errors, mistakes, writerisms, etc WrØ-weak — see also Clichés
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Websites for writers’/writing see Blogs & Websites.
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the Willing Suspension of Disbelief (the readers’ state of mind) — WrØ-disbel. See also Detail & Description — Planning & Prewriting — Realism — Vicarious experience of the reader.
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Why the book/story matters, what’s at stake — see: Character — Feelings — Goals/Conflicts/Premise — See also: Upping the Stakes — Willing Suspension of Disbelief. See also Suspense as a necessary element.
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Word-choice, word-count, word-cutting WrØ-word see also: Detail & Description — Feelings — Genre — Hooptedoodle — Imagery & Metaphor — Narrator & Narration — Setting — Word choice — Genres — Over-used — Revision
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Work habits see Process and Stuff
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Workshops WrØ-shop — See also Professional writers’ organizations & conferences and Writers’ Groups.
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World-building — see Detail & Description — Exposition — Narrator & Narration — Planning & Prewriting — Setting
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Write On! Index & Tagging Project — WrØ-en
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Write On! series — WriteOn. First ever diary in the series, WrØ-FIRSTEVER “New Year’s Resolutions for Writers” Thursday January 01, 2009. This is the sole over-all tag. Its link will pull up all diaries so tagged, in very rough reverse date order (DK dates them by when their draft was created), potentially including diaries not part of this series but tagged that way by diarists trying to exploit the tag or unaware the series exists and having some other reason for using the tag. Guest-hosted diaries should also be tagged WrØ-guest besides tagging for their topics.
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WriterBeware site — WrØ-beware — Absolute Write, Writer Beware and Preditors&Editors sites combined tag. These are in almost all diaries.
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Writerisms — see Weak writing.
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Writer’s/author’s process see Process
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Writer’s Block WrØ-blk — see also Methodologies and Process
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Writers’ / writing blogs & websites — see Blogs & Websites
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Writers’ books — see Books & Magazines/Journals for writers and on writing
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Writers’ Groups & circles (various kinds) WrØ-grp — see also Criticism, Critique & Critiquing, above, and Professional writers’ organizations & conferences and Writers’ Workshops
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Writers’ conferences — see Writers’ Workshops and Professional writers’ organizations & conferences
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Writers’ Workshops WrØ-shop — see also Professional writers’ organizations & conferences.
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Writing classes & courses, and writing teachers — see Studying writing. See also “teh guru” James E Gunn and Kij Johnson at his entry.
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Writing Contests WrØ-con
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Writing & creativity exercises for skill development — see Exercises — See also Study.
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Writing-games — see Exercises
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Writing life practicalities — see Business/financial & other practicalities and Stuff
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Writing/working environment, equipment, etc — see Stuff.
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Writing style — see GENRE section (each genre and subgenre tends to require a style that works best for the traits that make the genre/subgenre distinctive.) See also Hooptedoodle. For style/voice of author see Voice
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Wrong/morally dubious/harm e.g. by protags/goodguys see by protags/goodguys see Characters (including “bad” ones/villains) —Feelings — Killing — Trolleyology
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YA fiction — see GENRES, CATEGORIES, AGE-LEVELS, & OVERLAPS
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Young Adult fiction — see GENRES, CATEGORIES, AGE-LEVELS, & OVERLAPS
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Part 3. CLICKABLE TAGS/Links
Use Wr0- search-page for a global look around.
- At that page, click on the orange Tag Name at the head of the left-hand column if you want the tags in alphabetical order.
- The three or four or so WriteOn tags begun before this index don’t start with WrØ- so they won’t show on that page, but they’re still on those diaries, and WrØ- tags for those terms have been added whenever found so those diaries are also in this index.
- Guest-hosted WriteOns all get the WrØ-guest tag link. For WriteOns by individual guest-hosts, go to the individual’s own Profile page, click on List where you see Diary(List)and search there to find her/his WriteOns.
VOLUNTEER INDEXERS NOTE CAREFULLY:
- What’s BOLDED — starting with WrØ- — is what to type as a tag on the diary. Use SECTION 2 to find out precisely what full scope of topics get which tags. If you only use SECTION 3 you will f### everything up.
- The third character to type for all tags IS a ZERO —indicated/reminded by <big>Ø</big> in this index. Links don’t display showing that barred oh, it’s just for clarity that it has to be a ZERO to make our tags so we don’t pull up pagefuls of other DK tags with a regular oh in the character-string. See the so-far 354 other DK tags with "wro" or "Wro" or "WrO" in them to see why to NOT make that typo. If you do it accidentally at a diary, use EDIT TAGS function there to remove it and replace with the correct tag.
- DO NOT REMOVE ANY TAGS FROM ANY DIARIES ANYONE ELSE PUT THERE UNLESS THE DIARIES ARE YOUR OWN. For any questions about WrØ-type tags you see on WriteOn diaries, ask mettle fatigue.
- Work meticulously and conscientiously or don’t do it at all because casual doing it will f### up all the hard work that’s been done to make this index a useful, good-quality searching-tool for SensibleShoes and members of the series.
WrØ- (not in use yet) Wr0-
WrØ-ain (not in use yet) Wr0-ain
WrØ-bz (not in use yet) Wr0-bz
WrØ-eval (not in use yet) Wr0-eval
WwrØ-web (wrong formation) Wwr0-web
WrØchar (wrong formation) Wr0char
#s
WrØ-20 Rule of 20 Wr0-20
A
WrØ-act Play/script/teleplay/screenplay/stageplay/radioplay/etc (no diaries yet.)
WrØ-adage Adages Wr0-adage
WrØ-ain Wr0-ain — not in use, may be technologically unreliable.
WriteOn-agents — Literary agents. Some are at that tag;
all are at WrØ-ag Wr0-ag
WrØ-auth Authors&authorship Wr0-auth
B
WrØ-bad Characters, “bad” (adversaries, villains, etc) Wr0-bad
WrØ-bet (see Betakos above, for explanation) Wr0-bet
WrØ-beware Absolute Write, Writer Beware and Preditors&Editors sites combined tag. These are in almost all diaries. Wr0-beware
WrØ-biz Business, Financial & Other Practicalities Wr0-biz
WrØ-bks Books & Magazines/Journals for writers and on writing Wr0-bks
WrØ-blk Writer’s block Wr0-blk
WrØ-brain — Brainstorming
WrØ-bub — Bubble-maps/charts Wr0-bub
Wr0-bz Wr0-bz - not currently in use & has no concept or topic.
C
WrØ-char Characters, diaries on all kinds or several Wr0-char
WrØ-charcom Combining Characters (no diaries indexed for this as yet)
WrØ-Chester Wr0-Chester
WrØ-clef Roman à clef (no diaries indexed for this as yet)
WrØ-clich Clichés(and avoiding them) Wr0-clich
WrØ-col Collaborating Wr0-col
WrØ-comb Combining Scenes (no diaries indexed for this as yet)
WrØ-con Writing contests Wr0-con
WrØ-crit how to critique and take criticism (in section Criticism, critique, and critiquing) Wr0-crit
D
DaKoWriMo (Daily Kos Writing Month) DaKoWriMo
WrØ-der Derivative Wr0-der
WrØ-des Detail & Description Wr0-des
WrØ-devel Idea Development Wr0-devel
WrØ-disbel Willing Suspension of Disbelief Wr0-disbel
WrØ-div Diversity Wr0-div
WrØ-drft Drafts&drafting Wr0-drft
E
WrØ-eds Editors (at publishing houses, magazines, etc) Wr0-eds
WrØ-en Write On Index & Tagging Project Wr0-en
WrØ-end Structure&Structuring Wr0-end
WrØ-eval Wr0-eval — not currently in use.
WrØ-ex Trunk novels, shelved manuscripts, unworkable projects Wr0-ex
WrØ-exer Exercises/practice in writing & creativity skills. Wr0-exer
WrØ-exp Exposition Wr0-exp
F
WrØ-fant Fantasy including high fantasy Wr0-fant
WrØ-faq FAQ Wr0-faq
WrØ-feel Feelings Wr0-feel
WrØ-ff Fan fiction Wr0-ff
WrØ-fic Fiction in general Wr0-fic
WrØ-FIRSTEVER First Ever — The Diary That Started It All Wr0-FIRSTEVER
WrØ-fla Flashbacks & Flashforwards Wr0-fla
📚📚📚📚📚 All tags repaired to this point. Only some repaired from here on. Work in progress.
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WrØ-gen Genres, categories & classes of fiction, one or more Wr0-gen
WrØ-ges Gesture Wr0-ges
WrØ-go Goals/Conflicts/Premise Wr0-go
WrØ-grp Writers’ groups Wr0-grp
WrØ-guest Guest-hosted WriteOns Wr0-guest
H
WrØ-hap (incidents, events, and what physically happens/ed) Action Wr0-hap
WrØ-her — Monomyth (Hero’s Journey) Wr0-her
WrØ-hint — Foreshadowing/hinting in advance Wr0-hint
WrØ-hoop — Hooptedoodle Wr0-hoop
WrØ -hrr — the horror genre Wr0-hrr
WrØ-hst Historical fiction (OBSERVE: not HIST nor HIS) Wr0-hst
WrØ-hum Humor, writing of Wr0-hum
I
Wr0-ingersnow or Ingermanson Snowflake (see also Methodologies and Planning & Pre-writing) Wr0-ingersnow
WrØ-ideal Sociopolitical idealism in ficton. Wr0-ideal
WrØ-im Imagery & metaphor Wr0-im
J
JamesEGunn — “teh guru”, writer & teacher James E. Gunn.
WrØ-jou Journal Wr0-jou
K
WrØ-kid Wr0-kid Childrens’ & middle-grades fiction
KijJohnson
WrØ-kil Wr0-kil Killing off characters & death generally Inclg’ substitutes. Also dk tag Trolleyology
L
WrØ-let — Epistolary fiction Wr0-let
WrØ-lit — Literary fiction Wr0-lit.
WrØ-lim — Limits issues such as censorship, plagiarism, erotica vas pornography, etc. Wr0-lim
Wr0-ldt — Literary devices and techniques. Wr0-ldt
WrØ-ltr — Letters (Publisher queries & components, submissions/submitting material in full or partially, rejection notices, etc with/from editors or agents) Wr0-ltr
M
WrØ-main main/central Characters (protagonist, “hero”, etc) Wr0-main
WrØ-mar MarySue characters & stories Wr0-mar
WrØ-mech Mechanics (written language skills). Wr0-mech
WrØ-mem Memoir written factually (no diaries yet)
WrØ-mon Wr0-mon Monetary Assistance while writing or studying writing.
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NaNoWriMo (the system made it nanowrimo) — National Novel Writing Month and see also other related DK tags not specific to our group.
WrØ-name Wr0-name
WrØ-nar Narrator & narration, including voice of narrator (similar to but not the same as voice of author) Wr0-nar
NicolaMorgan (the Crabbit Old Bat & her website)
WrØ-non Nonfiction writing (e.g., memoir...) Wr0-non
WrØ-nov The novel as a whole (no diaries yet)
O
WrØ-orig Originality Wr0-orig
WrØ-org Professional-geared organizations & conferences for writers Wr0-org
WrØ-out Methodologies Wr0-out
P
WrØ-pac Pacing Wr0-pac
WrØ-part critique partners Wr0-part
WrØ-pitch — pitching ideas, mss or projects in person — no diaries yet.
WrØ-plot Plots and plotting Wr0-plot
WrØ-pov Point of view Wr0-pov
WrØ-pre Planning & prewriting Wr0-pre
Wr0-proc Process, authors/writer’s Wr0-proc
WrØ-pub Publishers & Publishing Wr0-pub and this range of DK tags.
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R
WrØ-read the Readership/audience Wr0-read
WrØ-real —Realism
WrØ-rev Revision Wr0-rev
WrØ-rit Adapting/converting material from one genre or form to another Wr0-rit
WrØ-rom Romance genre Wr0-rom
WrØ-rule Rules Wr0-rule
Rule of Twenty (upstartcrowliterary re: Bruce Coville et al.) See
WrØ-20 before A.
S
WrØ-scam Wr0-scam
WrØ-scen Scenes and Combining scenes Wr0-scen
WrØ-sec Wr0-sec secondary Characters
SelfPublishing — a general DK tag not unique to the WriteOn series. Also Self-Publishing — SelfPublishing101 — Self-Publishing101 — Self-Publishing-101 — — HowToWrite&SelfPublishABook — and other tags with "self-publish" or “selfpublish” in them.
SensibleShoes' posting history including all her WriteOns
WrØ-set Wr0-set
WrØ-sf Speculative fiction incl’g science-fiction/Sci-Tech/Futurism Wr0-sf
WrØ-shop Writers’ Workshops Wr0-shop
WrØ-short Novellas, Novelettes, short stories, and fix-ups/composite novels (that last being a novel composed of pre-existing self-sufficient short stories and vignettes, a.k.a. short story cycle) Wr0-short
WrØ-study Studying writing Wr0-study
WrØ-stuf Stuff (see full explanation at that term/heading) Wr0-stuf
WrØ-susp Suspense (the quality, not the genre) Wr0-susp
T
WrØ-talk Dialogue, interior monologue and thoughts Wr0-talk
WrØ-temp Wr0-temp “Challenges/exercises using our stock or template characters besides Togwogmagog (below)
WrØ-tert Characters, tertiary & minor. Wr0-tert
WrØ-tinu Continuity — Wr0-tinu
WrØ-thru Through-lines Wr0-thru
Togwogmagog and Wr0-tog (see above for full description of this tag includin’g nonTog paradigms we often use,tagged WrØ-temp, just above.). See also WrØ-wogmagog link below for the “Std characters, sets & props in the Quest for the Jewel of Togwogmagog & [our other std genre practice types]”
WrØ-trad — traditional folk or fairy tales Wr0-trad.
WrØ-transomalligator Wr0-transomalligator
Trolleyology (not a unique WriteOn tag but it is a writing concept)
U
WrØ-unt — untagged diaries [not used as yet — no tag-page exists yet]
WrØ-up Upping the stakes/plot complexity/obstacles. Wr0-up
V
WrØ-ver Poetry & verse Wr0-ver
WrØ-vic Vicarious experience of reader Wr0-vic
WrØ-vocauth Voice of author Wr0-vocauth
WrØ-vocchar Voice of character Wr0-vocchar
W
WrØ-walk — Walking scenes Wr0-walk
WrØ-weak Weak writing Wr0-weak
WrØ-web Blogs & Websites for writers Wr0-web
WriteOn — all the diaries in the series… or at least all tagged with that.
WrØ-wogmagog — “Std characters, sets & props in the Quest for the Jewel of Togwogmagog & [our other std genre practice types]” Wr0-wogmagog
WrØ-word Word Choice & other word issues. Wr0-word
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Y
WrØ-ya — the Young Adult fiction genre Wr0-ya
Z
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