 Drama: July 08, 2009 Issue [#3137] |
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This week: Edited by: esprit  
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"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly: sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
(Ernest Hemingway)
"Once you think you know, you just stop yourself from the beautiful experience of learning"
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Intro To My Editorials
I'm pleased to have been chosen as a permanent editor of the Drama Newsletter. It will open new educational doors for me, and I hope for you too. My first edition as a permanent fixture is an introduction to the sort of topics I'll be presenting--topics I think are important to writers and reviewers of all levels. My ideas will come from common writing issues I find while reviewing, and questions asked on discussion forums that spark an idea.
 How-to's and Useful Tips
I will present how-to tips and items that will help us learn the craft of good writing. If you'd like to see a particular topic that fits this theme, please let me know. Send your ideas by responding to the newsletter, not by e-mail. My e-mail box tends to become cluttered and I'm always losing my messages. I forget to use the organization folders I so carefully organized so I could be more organized. I'll never get organized! How do you all do it?
Kids-Lit!
I'm really excited to announce a new Writing for Children edition every other month. Although writing for children requires the same basic knowledge of the craft, it's a genre that has its own rules--as all genres do. A separate Children's Newsletter has been suggested, but since that can't be done, this will benefit those members who write kids-lit.
Children's books are an important, popular, and profitable genre that should be as sharp and polished as any fiction, and I feel it deserves more attention on wdc. Books for children are filled with drama, so it's a logical fit. Don't forget to submit your work to launch this new endeavor.
Editor Picks
The picks will be chosen from items listed on the Writing, Community, How-To/Advice or Reviewing genre lists. Be sure at least one of these genres is checked if you'd like it to be included. I'll be particularly looking for good advice items, though fiction will be included too.
I'm looking forward to editing the Drama Newsletter, along with the Newbies Newsletter, and I take the responsibilty as seriously as I do anything I want to do well. I want to make it helpful and interesting by covering the issues you want and need covered.
Oh, one more thing. Very important!
Send in submissions of your best work and I will definitely have a look at them. I'd love to include at least five in the Submitted Items section each month.
As always, thanks for reading - and wish me luck!
I'll be back the 5th of August.
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Submitted By: Adriana Noir
Submitted Comment: Great advice, esprit! I think short stories are one of the most challenging to write because you don't have the space to play with that you would in a novel. You gave some great tips on how to make the most of the space we have.
Thank you! 
Submitted By: Lauriemariepea
Submitted Comment: hi, esprit--
yes! thank you for this newsletter. i write a lot of short fiction, and i admit i'll slap a scene down onto the page and call it a story when i've got one due for my weekly workshop. i have no shame. okay, maybe a little shame.
As difficult as it can be to cram a developed story arc inside of 1000 words (or less), you're right--unless there's some change within the MC by the end of the story, it's missing an important element. now i just gotta reread all my stories and decide which ones actually qualify. thanks again for making a great point!
You're welcome, Laurie. Don't forget to submit a story when you're satisfied with it -- I'd love to include it.
Submitted By: StephBee 
Submitted Comment: esprit Welcome to the Drama Newsletter as a guest editor! It was great to read your letter about jumping into the heart of the climax for a short story. I agree - without that "change" for the character, it leaves a reader a bit empty. I usually plot out my short stories in much the same way I plot out my longer works, it helps.
Ah, so you're a 'Plotter'! I'm a Pantser. I wonder how the majority of members would identify their style? Thank you, Guest editor turned Permanent was a great surprise!
Submitted By: Acme
Submitted Comment: Good guest spot, esprit. I enjoyed your views on story/scene
Thanks, Acme. I appreciate your comments. 
Submitted By: Alessandrazamber
Submitted Comment: You really identify a core issue for me by focusing on wordiness and ways around it. I am also helped by the discussion on change-what it is. I took a couple of writing intensive classes this Spring and fried my instructors with 4-5,000 word papers which were supposed to be 500 words. I finally managed to carve out about 3,000 unnecessary words to my profs' delight. Thanks for being so on target and tight in your focus.
Yours,
mochai
I'm glad the topic was timely, Mochai. Wordiness is a number one issue for most writers. It sounds like you took good advantage of all those extra words. You might be particularly interested in the July 29th issue of the Short Stories newsletter. It addresses why it's good to overwrite. 
We always appreciate the feedback, thanks!
Editors:
This week's editor: esprit
Next week's editor: Joy 
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