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Drama: October 10, 2007 Issue [#1995]

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From The Writer's Digest Flip Dictionary Barbara Ann Kipfer, Ph. D.

"For when you know what you want to say, but can't think of the word."

Drama: acting, climax, composition, conflict, excitement, movie, opera, play, program, show, tension, theater, tragedy


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Letter from the editor

Continueing on with chapter 10 of Writing The Wave by Elizabeth Ayres

Chapter Ten

Time and Tide:
Put Passion into Lifeless Writing

Butterfly

1. Write down 4 "life lessons".
that is, identify 4 major issues with which you have struggled.

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Duplicate the above drawing in your workbook (sorry words are backwards)

2. Add the words personal and individual under the word "me" on the worksheet. Add the words impersonal and universal under the phrase "not me"

Set your timer for 5 minutes

3. look at your 4 life lessons. Identify one that you'd like to work with now. think of f incidents in your life that embody that lesson and jot them down in the four spots on the "me" wing of the butterfly.

4. Fill in the four spots of the "not me" wing of your butterfly with four world events

5. Select a pair of experiences on your butterfly's wing that you'd like to work with, one from both sides of the wings.

Set your timer for 10 minutes

6. Write bout the personal incident, trying to stir up as much as possible, all the emotions surrounding it.

Set your timer now for something between 10 and 30 minutes, but no longer.

7. Write about step 6's companion (the world event), using the fellings you became conscious of while writing for step 6

now...

8. Select an unfinished piece of writing
~ draw another butterfly, but with no spots
Now write a focus statement like you did in Step 2 of the "music exercise" in chapter 9.
After, draw a corrisponding number of spots on your butterfly's wings
For example: your between two actions with your characters, "getting out of the woods" or "they get into a deep conversation"- put two spots on the wings with these two ideas in them

9. Think of personal experiences that parallel the focus statements on the "not me" wing of the butterfly

10. Select on spot on the "me" wing of your butterfly and writie about it in depth. Pattern this writing after what you did for step 7 of this exercise. Write about your remembered situation

11. Use you butterfly to continue the unfinished piece of writing selected in step 8


You have now finished Chapter 10!

next time "The Ceaseless Surf"



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From Jessecakes:

I didn't really understand the final step of this week's writing exercize. I was totally with it up until the part about writing a piece using the nouns from step seven in the format of step five ... ? I am new, so maybe I just missed a few things from the last newsletter that were needed for context. I think it would help, though, if I could see an example of someone who did this exercize really well.

I know a lot of you have been following these exercises, can anyone help her out?

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