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Writing Wider - More Exercises in Creative
Writingby Billie
A Williams - Author of the #1 bestseller
"Money Isn't Everything"
Now available for immediate
download (see link
at base of page)
Magellan Gold Edition*
This edition specially edited by Douglas Edward
Glassford
From the author of Writing
Wide - Exercises in Creative Writing, comes
another fascinating and insightful book about the writing
process. Think
Natalie Goldberg meets Mary Higgins Clark and you have
some idea of
Billie A Williams' prowess as an author, writing educator
and inspiration.
About the
Author
Award winning Mystery/Suspense
author Billie A Williams is a fiction, non-fiction and
poetry author and has won numerous contests for her
short/flash fiction stories,
essays, and poetry with over two dozen works published.
She is published in various
magazines such as the literary magazine Thema; Guide,
a Magazine for Children,
Novel Advice.com, Writing Etc. WritingNow.com, and Women
In The Arts newsletter
as well as Sisters in Crime, to list but a
few.
Her articles, columns and features have appeared
regularly in newspapers. Short
stories, flash fiction, poetry and book reviews have
appeared in Mystery Time,
True Love Magazine and various anthologies and on
line e-zines and web sites. She
writes a bi-monthly column titled Whodunit?
for Mystery Fictions Voices in the
Dark and is a contributing editor for Writingnow.com,
a Blueberry Press Newsletter.
She also hosts her own writers group, Word Mage
Writers and Readers as well as
The Amberg Writers Group that meets at her home
monthly.
Williams is currently a member of The Wisconsin
Regional Writers Association (WRWA) Upper
Peninsula
Writers Association (UPWA) National Association of Women
Writers (NAWW) Sisters in Crime, Women
in the Arts Program, Electronically Published Internet
Connection (EPIC), Society of Childrens Book
Writers and Illustrators. (SCBWI) and
Childrens Book Insider, and the Children Writers
Coaching Club.
She lives with her husband and Lady Slipper the cat, in
Amberg, a small Northern Wisconsin community
where the winters are cold and long, but the people are
warm and friendly.
Contents of the Book,
Writing Wider:
Part
I
1. Wide Brush Strokes Painting the
opening lines
x a. Whats the story genre
x b. Whats the story
idea/goal/motivation
2. Wide Crayon Adding Color
x a. Its easier to hold when
starting out
$ b. Manipulates easier
x c. Dream
x d. Cover the page quickly
Part II
1. Wide Path Room for two or more to walk
together, characters to populate your writing
2. Wide Boulevard Room for flowers, trees, and
your muse
3. Wide Road: Gravel, black top, concrete, Iron Ore slag,
dirt
x a. Side Roads
x b. 4-lane highways
x c. Detours
Part III
1. Wide Eyed Hear, see, taste, touch, smell,
listen
x a. Gather impressions
x b. Spin them out like a fine
spiders web to share with the reader
2. Wide Mouth Gossipy,
x a. Chatter
x b. unnecessary verbiage
x c. dialogue
3. Wide Grin Teeth fence off the author from the
reader, the reader from the character
x a. Each tooth a name
x b. Each tooth a purpose
x c. Conceal true thoughts
4. Wide Shoulders Can carry the weight of a novel
x a. Sleuth carries the mystery
x b. Heroine carries the Romance
novel
x c. Unknown carries the thriller
x d. Exploration carries the
Science Fiction
x e. Imagination carries the
Fantasy
Part IV
1. Wide River Be careful of undertow,
antagonist and other detractors, hampers to story goal
2. Wide Ocean Cant cross in a canoe, wide
waves and huge creatures
3. Wide Lake Can you see the other side, are there
any islands for a side trip
4. Wide Bridge Connecting the parts of your story
x a. Space connectors
x b. Summary connectors
x c. Time connectors
Part V
1. Wide Meadow wild flowers, wild life-
playful summers
2. Wide Plains wind, wide expanse, Kansas dust
storms, cowboy dreams echoes of history
3. Wide Desert seems barren look closer
a little rain on a starry night
4. Wide Jungle teaming danger every
turn, abundance
5. Wide Tundra frozen, more dead than the desert,
beneath the surface
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