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Table of Contents for:

“Think Outside the Square: Writing Publishable (Short) Stories”

© Cheryl Wright

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS  
About the Author 5
INTRODUCTION  
My Story 6
CREATING MEMORABLE CHARACTERS  
Warm-up Exercise 9
Building Characters from within your mind’s eye 10
Sample Character 13
Beginning to Building the Character 14
Using Layers to Add More Depth 15
Give your character a unique voice 16
Motivating your character 18
Physical appearance vs. imagination 20
CREATING AUTHENTIC SETTINGS  
Fictional vs. authentic settings 23
Fitting your character to her surroundings 27
WRITING REALISTIC DIALOGUE  
Dialogue and Action Tags 29
WRITING THE STORY  
Finding Ideas 33
Word Painting - Show, Don’t Tell 34
Opening Sentences 37
Thinking Outside the Square 39
Point of view 43
Using Emotion 46
Choosing a title 49
Twist at the End 51
CONCLUSION  
Tying it all up 53
THIS ‘N THAT  
Little gems of wisdom 54
TERMINOLOGY 56

 

 

 

 

 

 

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         Last updated: March 14, 2008