After the first video conference workshop, I broke apart a story to do exactly this. Going intuitively for the first draft was good, but I would have been better served to break it down into bite sized chunks earlier on. May try your legal pad method for the first draft on the next one.
This just makes me want to write more because it shows me how far my writing needs to go. Practice, practice, practice. Thank you for the lesson and the story Chuck. It was very enjoyable. Now I have an ocean or two to cross.
Hey Chuck, when you wrote ‘Haunted’, did you have in mind that you would thread together a series of a short stories together into an overarching narrative early on, like from the get-go practically, or inception, even, or was it further aways down the road? If it was further on down the road, how many short stories from the collection had you written before the idea of ‘Haunted’ started to come together?
Even though I didn't put a label on it, this is my instinctual method. I think this is the best advice I could pass on to any creator. I'll tell 'em I got it from the guy who killed Meatloaf. No, wait, scratch that. Too soon. I got it from Chuck.
Chuck, can you please elaborate a bit more on your thoughts about emulating German syntax and sentence structure in English prose ? I find that notion really interesting. Thank you.
I hear the german seeping through the sentences like the mustard through the dudes fingers. Such wonderful grammar! Such logical construction! I was wondering, what made you go with "Unka" and not "Onkel"? As to the story, it reminded me of my theory that all of us are mentally ill in some way – die Geschichte war eine wunderbare Art, dies zu entblößen (The story was a wonderful way to expose this)!
Hi Chuck, I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on the ‘comes together as if by magic.’
If I remember correctly fight club contains more than one chapter that was written as a stand-alone story. I was wondering how you come to the point that these stories could come together in one and the same novel. How do these stories connect most often? Is that on the theme, voice or character? Or something else?
Also, if I remember correctly, Diary was based on a short story that didnt became a chapter but expanded into a whole novel. What characteristics do you feel that a short story need to contain to have the potential to expand into a whole novel?
Wow that was an awesome short story! Loved it. I'm gonna look for that issue of Playboy on ebay. "Hairy cello." Lol. The sentence structure thing was kinda addicting too. Very kewl piece. Pussy Benny.
After the first video conference workshop, I broke apart a story to do exactly this. Going intuitively for the first draft was good, but I would have been better served to break it down into bite sized chunks earlier on. May try your legal pad method for the first draft on the next one.
This just makes me want to write more because it shows me how far my writing needs to go. Practice, practice, practice. Thank you for the lesson and the story Chuck. It was very enjoyable. Now I have an ocean or two to cross.
Hey Chuck, when you wrote ‘Haunted’, did you have in mind that you would thread together a series of a short stories together into an overarching narrative early on, like from the get-go practically, or inception, even, or was it further aways down the road? If it was further on down the road, how many short stories from the collection had you written before the idea of ‘Haunted’ started to come together?
Even though I didn't put a label on it, this is my instinctual method. I think this is the best advice I could pass on to any creator. I'll tell 'em I got it from the guy who killed Meatloaf. No, wait, scratch that. Too soon. I got it from Chuck.
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Hey chuck how’s it hanging? Long?
Chuck, can you please elaborate a bit more on your thoughts about emulating German syntax and sentence structure in English prose ? I find that notion really interesting. Thank you.
I hear the german seeping through the sentences like the mustard through the dudes fingers. Such wonderful grammar! Such logical construction! I was wondering, what made you go with "Unka" and not "Onkel"? As to the story, it reminded me of my theory that all of us are mentally ill in some way – die Geschichte war eine wunderbare Art, dies zu entblößen (The story was a wonderful way to expose this)!
Hi Chuck, I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on the ‘comes together as if by magic.’
If I remember correctly fight club contains more than one chapter that was written as a stand-alone story. I was wondering how you come to the point that these stories could come together in one and the same novel. How do these stories connect most often? Is that on the theme, voice or character? Or something else?
Also, if I remember correctly, Diary was based on a short story that didnt became a chapter but expanded into a whole novel. What characteristics do you feel that a short story need to contain to have the potential to expand into a whole novel?
Wow that was an awesome short story! Loved it. I'm gonna look for that issue of Playboy on ebay. "Hairy cello." Lol. The sentence structure thing was kinda addicting too. Very kewl piece. Pussy Benny.