I have a question

[rm]

Why is ogi_ogas the maintainer of something that purports to be an SFF critique group?

http://community.livejournal.com/m00nr0cket/profile

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Selling-Writer-Dwight-Swain/dp/0806111917/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251924244&sr=8-1

"You need to know only four things in order to write a solid story: how to group words into motivation-reaction units; how to group motivation-reaction units into scenes and sequels; how to group scenes and sequels into story pattern; how to create the kind of characters that give a story life."

Writing: like making a granny square afghan.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

And I thought I could be formulaic at times...

(but only because keeping a formulaic approahc in mind is the only way I can finish the gorram outline and get to the actual WRITING...)

[jalendavi-lady.livejournal.com]

And there are whole sections of publishing on writing devoted to each of those steps.

That's like summing up being a mathematician into two steps: Learn the four basic math operations, and learn to combine them to do stuff.

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

As an overview it is not too bad. Style, plotting, pacing, character. (Or something similar).

Taken on it's own, though, it's about as useful as "Make the horse go where you want it to and don't fall off" for learning how to ride.