January 2010
4 posts
Interventions by Carla Brooke
chelseatatum:
After a morning of yoga, my body is stretched to take in the ocean view. Still, I can feel my chest muscles tighten as I drive along Hwy 1 to teach Intensive Intervention, an afternoon program at an elementary school near my home in Half Moon Bay. I give myself an hour to set up for the nonstop whirlwind of students who are pulled out from their classroom for literacy help. Many...
dailymeh:
I don’t carry a sketchbook to write down ideas. I don’t write drafts in notebooks. Instead, I write and rewrite ideas in my head. I’m not talking about general ideas here; I assume everyone, or at least everyone who cares, thinks about what they want to write before they sit down to write a serious text. Even those who say they think by writing, I assume, don’t sit down to write with...
Expanded Scene Breakdown - Best Kept Screenwriting... →
screenwriting:
“The Expanded Scene Breakdown is a 20 to 40+ page point by point, step by step, scene by scene outline of the entire screenplay in prose form using dialogue, character development, action, etc.”
Rules for Writing Well
meltinyourmouth:
26 Golden Rules for Writing Well
1.Don’t abbrev. 2.Check to see if you any words out. 3.Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. 4.About sentence fragments. 5.When dangling, don’t use participles. 6.Don’t use no double negatives. 7.Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. 8.Just between you and I, case is important. 9.Join clauses good, like a conjunction...