Over the weekend I talked to Vicky about co-writing a book with her for my graduation project. She said she was perfectly fine with it as long as I was allowed to do so. If I am, that is definately the road I wish to take. If not, that's alright, I have a back-up story I can write and I've got all my ideas for it already (it's not uncommon for me to be working on several stories at once).
In class today, I came up with my essential question and some foundation questions. I began to explore my topic and saved some interesting websites I want to look at more closely in the future.
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Important Links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publishing
- http://gradprojects2010.blogspot.com
- http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
- http://www.bookpros.com/bp2006/divpub/how_to_publish_my_book.php
- http://www.caderbooks.com/pubfaq.html
- http://www.easybib.com
- http://www.ettc.net/writing/PDFfiles/Writing%20Process%20Steps.pdf
- http://www.jimloy.com/language/misused.htm
- http://www.kisd.org/khs/english/help%20page/Descriptive%20Words.htm
- http://www.lulu.com
- http://www.msgarrettonline.com/descripwords.html
- https://www.booklogix.com/Home.html
Key Terms
- Antagonist: character whose values and behavior conflict with the protagonist or hero.
- Character: a person portrayed in the story.
- Cliffhanger: ending of a book left teasingly unresolved, what happens next is unclear.
- Climax: the most important or exciting moment in something such as a story or event.
- Dialogue: words spoken by the characters
- Final Copy: the finished product; typed and neat.
- First Draft: the rough draft or sloppy copy is where the writer takes the ideas prepared in the Pre-Writing stage and puts their story together without concern to grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.
- Foreshadowing: something indicating or suggesting that something unpleasant is going to happen.
- Irony: humor based on contradiction.
- Narrative: art or process of telling a story.
- Plot: story line or sequence of events that takes the reader from the beginning to the end.
- Pre-Writing: process also known as brainstorming. This is when the writer jots down ideas and descriptions for the setting, characters, plot and ending. Use of pictures, maps, and charts may be used to demonstrate the setting and how the story will unfold.
- Proofreading: the writer carefully reads the story and checks for grammatical, spelling and punctuation errors.
- Protagonist/Main Character: is the most important character, which the story revolves around.
- Revising: the writer reads over his or her work and makes adjustments to improve the story’s flow, dialogue, narrative and credibility (does it make sense). They may also ask a close confident to read their story over as well for constructive criticism.
- Setting: the period of time and place in which events of a story take place.
- Suspense: chain of events keeping the reader on the edge of their seat; enjoyable tension.
- Writing Process: consists of five main steps: pre-writing, writing a first draft, revising, proofreading and establishing your final copy.
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