May 25 2008
Welcome to Writing The Fiction Story
Welcome to Today.com and to Writing the Fiction Story. My name is Lea Schizas , a multi-published, award-winning author and editor. This blog will be geared for new writers but also to seasoned writers who are seeking to try their hand writing a fiction story.We’ll be covering everything, from A to Z, such as:
- finding a story idea
- building and fleshing out your characters
- writing a strong and captivating beginning
- adding foreshadows to build suspense
- finalizing a satisfying ending
- seeking out the right publisher for your story
- links to various helpful writing sites
- calls for submissions and contests
and more. With each topic I welcome your questions and will try to answer them. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll get it from one of my sources. That’s another great area, networking. Writers helping writers opens the doors not only to publishing houses/magazines/zines, but to fellow writers willing to guide and help each other.
So get your pen and paper ready, and Writing the Fiction Story is about to rock your Muse.
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Hi, I’m Katie-Anne from wakeupwriting and I have the opinionatednews blog here at today.com. I’m RSSing your blog because it might be just what I need to help get my fiction writing back on track. I spend all my time doing work writing, and I really need to get back to spending some creative time with my fiction projects. Thanks!
Hi, Katie-Anne. Nice to meet you.
Well, I have to say writing non-fiction for me is a task. If it’s writing related, I have no problem. Get me out of my comfort zone and I feel strangled. Why? It’s the research part that gets to me. I begin to research and end up with an encyclopedia of information to sift through, not knowing what I should or should not use. So I remain with my Muse in the fiction arena, where my characters dictate to me where they want to go, what they want to say, and who they want to meet. At times, I fear the assylum will come looking for me.
Then again, I believe all writers possess a ‘unique’ side to them that allows their creative juices to flow.
Looking forward to your participation and hopefully, we’ll get your Muse to write that next best seller.
Hi Lea,
This sounds wonderful. Thanks for the link.
Hi, Jan.
I’ll be touching base with foreshadowing as we move along in a ’strange’ but orderly fashion. Then again, this is the writing world and you just never know what’s going to be published.
As for foreshadows, when you know your story, where you want to go, what obstacles you want to place, then you place small ‘hints’ of upcoming obstacles. For example:
In my paranormal suspense/thriller, Doorman’s Creek, I start off with a dream sequence. This dream sequence is a crucial part to the story and the mystery. But readers don’t know this until the very end where I tie it in with the conclusion.
Other obvious foreshadows you might have read is when a character mentions a fear of the basement. Well, the reader knows something is going to happen eventually in a basement with that character at some point. If the writer doesn’t include this then you have a very disappointed reader.
Hope this fills your foreshadow appetite until we dig deeper into this area in fiction writing.
Hi Cherley and thank you for stopping by. Feel free to drop my a question on any post that catches your fancy.