Tag: Writing
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G. Robert Frazier’s Best of List
With the Grammys behind us and the Oscars ahead, I thought I’d present my own Best of… roundup as well. Consider this, though, more of a people’s choice awards list. I haven’t seen all the Oscar contenders so I can’t rate the high-brow emotional stuff, and I’m not into pop…
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Tools of the Trade: Spiral-bound notebooks still a favorite
By G. Robert Frazier Quick show of hands: Which tool do you writers like more, the spiral-bound notebook (along with a good old-fashioned pen) or a computer and keypad? For quick notes, character sketches, and random scenes that come to me in the middle of the night, I have to…
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Book Review: The Accident makes mistake of being too wordy
I like short, snappy sentences and paragraphs. And lots of white space. Stories read faster. Your eye swiftly races through the action, reading from left to right, from top to bottom, the pages turning. James Patterson novels are a perfect example. Most of his books feature paragraphs of two or…
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Join the ranks: Nashville Film Fest looking for a few good readers
Since it’s Giving Tuesday, I thought I should share a unique way for you to give back: You can be a volunteer reader for the Nashville Film Festival’s Screenwriting Competition. This is my second year as a reader for the competition, wherein I get to read dozens of scripts and…
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Authors & Artists Assemble! Making comics takes teamwork
If you grew up enjoying comic books like me, you probably have entertained the notion of writing or drawing your own comic book one day. It’s a thrilling and unique medium, and it clearly takes a team effort to bring the adventures of your favorite super-heroes to life month after…
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Beware of frozen food cups and bare feet
They should put a warning label on those new Stouffer’s Cheeseburger Mac cups. One that reads: Caution, Frozen Mac and Cheese Cups Can Cause Physical Injury if It Should Roll Out of Your Freezer and Drop on Your Bare Foot. Ouch! That’s what happened to me this morning as I opened…
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Everyone’s an expert on writing, or so they think
How-to articles on the writing craft are a dime a dozen. They’re all over the internet, in my email’s inbox daily, on my Facebook feed, and in the dozens of Writer’s Digest magazines and writing books in my personal library. And everyone is an expert, or so they claim. Today,…
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Picking up where I left off…
Earlier this year I began work on a mystery/thriller novel. I created character sketches and bios. I filled up a corkboard with sticky notes describing key scenes and character arcs. I invested in Scrivener and learned enough about it to actually start using it. I wrote about 18,000 words. Then,…
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Journalism do-over? I don’t think so.
There’s an interesting discussion going on over on Linked In among journalists about whether, if they knew what they know now about the industry, would they do it all over again? Would they still become journalists if given the chance to do something else? As a journalist who has been…
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Is it wrong to love the Internet?
It’s a time suck, I know. But it’s also one of the most rewarding inventions, too. It’s the Internet. The World Wide Web. My bane. My curse. My favorite resource. Think about it. At just the touch of a few buttons, a few strokes of the keypad, you can open…
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