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	<title>Writing With One Hand Waving Free &#187; characterization</title>
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		<title>Ordinary People: a writing exercise to capture characterization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer and teach Margot Case offered a brilliant workshop at he Richard Hugo House Write-O-Rama workshop entitled Ordinary People. We read excerpts from “Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning” by Donald Bartheleme, Sixty Stories.
I&#8217;d tried The Dead Father by Bartheleme, but found it at the wrong time and had never tried Donald Bartheleme again. What a [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essential elements of a marketable novel author Janice MacDonald teaches in her writing course are:

Hook
Sense of place
Interesting characters
Compelling dialogue (she&#8217;s English)
Strong storyline (one with a logical pattern)
Appropriate pacing
Distinctive voice
Particular point of view
Slowly revealed secret or answer (the presentation of information)

Ms. MacDonald refers to these as the &#8220;Furnishings.&#8221; She&#8217;s speaking of the traditional novel or [...]]]></description>
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