Posts tagged writing

• 29 Apr

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Doing Research

   So you want to write your story, but maybe it's about a topic that you're not 100% familiar with, what do you do when you want to write about stuff you DON'T know? Well you have to do some degree of research, but how do you do it, and how much research is enough? Well let's find out, this week is

• 24 Apr

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHow: Editing

   So you finished, you did something that to few who begin to write somethingare able to accomplish, so you're done, correct? Time to move onto the new work? No, not at all, it's time to edit your work, and sharpen it into what you truly want it to be. This week we are talking about editing.  So l

• 15 Apr

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Staying Focused

   A lot of us don't have problems writing, we enjoy writing, and it comes easily... But there is a problem that many of us who like to write also suffer from, and that is the issue is losing our focus, or losing our trust in the work. Focusing on your writing, and finishing a work is important, it'

• 18 Mar

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Improving Dialogue

    Dialogue in your stories is deeply important, how your actors talk, and the phrases they use, and trying to make them sound right is the hardest thing a lot of writers have to master, and it can take a long time for most writers until they have something approaching the kind of dialogue they wan

• 11 Mar

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Character Creation

   Character creation and development is one of the most important things to consider in your writing, because really it's the character who is central to most stories. (SIDENOTE: YES, IT IS possible to write stories that don't necessarily have a "main chracter", and aren't necessarily about char

• 01 Mar

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Intro. to The Hero's Journey & Monomyth

  This week I want to talk a little more about story structure, specifically one of the better known ones, "The Hero's Journey". The Hero's Journey was a term based on the research of writer and mythologist Joseph Campbell, Campbell studied myth, and was really interested in things in myths that reach

• 18 Feb

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Intro. to Formatting

   The ever present spector of FORMATTING, trying to remember all of the rules can be a big pain, and you always worry about messing something up and your script getting ditches because you made something look unprofessional, so how do you learn formatting, and what's the best way to make sure you're

• 11 Feb

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  Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW: Treatments and Planning

   Here we are, another week, and another chapter in Wesley's Weekly WriteHOW, where I offer advice on ways you can help get yourself started, and get your writing on the page. Our focus here at Indy Mogul is to help you with every stage of the filmmaking process, and the story is central to any film