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Tag Archives: Courtney Cantrell
Your Prewriting Recipe for Mock Turtle Soup
Monday, March 11, 2013
You’ve given your story a working title. You’ve honed your story question to a perfect, sharp edge. You’ve crafted a satisfying, useful short synopsis. That means it’s time to sink your teeth into the Mock Table of Contents!
The Short Synopsis (Or: Don’t Fritz Your Circuits)
Monday, March 4, 2013
Tweet Welcome back, dearest readers, to a brand new week of writerly fun! I hope that our posts thus far have got you excited about working on your story and working on your publishing. We here at Unstressed Syllables love to take the stress out of your “syllables” –whether you’re reading dialogue aloud to yourself […]
Cut It Out! C.S. Friedman and the Dreaded Prologue
Monday, February 25, 2013
Tweet Welcome, dearest writers and readers, to my first feature post! This week we’re on about prologues. Should we have them? Or should we cast them upon the cleansing fires of editing and rewrites, never allowing them to mar another of our manuscripts again? The Problem with Prologues Rumor has it that your editor (you […]
Working Titles and Story Questions
Monday, February 18, 2013
In today’s “Prewriting” post, we’ll discuss working titles, short synopses, and the ever-elusive story question.
The Benefits of Prewriting
Monday, February 11, 2013
Tweet In last week’s intro post, I posited that not prewriting your novel is like not taking a map on a quest (which happens to end with facing down a fire-breathing dragon). Today we’re going to take a look at that metaphorical map and figure out just what it really is. Caveat Caveat emptor: Let […]
Dragons, and Something to Blow Your Nose On
Monday, February 4, 2013
Tweet Author with Penchants Greetings, fellow writerly one! I’m Courtney Cantrell. You might know me from the column I used to write here at Unstressed Syllables, What I Learned About Writing This Week. Or you might have followed me over here from my own site, Court Can Write. In either case, you already know that […]
Why Choose Draft2Digital?
Monday, September 24, 2012
Tweet Unstressed Syllables has been on something of an unannounced summer hiatus. I’ve been unremarkably busy, and our Contributing Editor has just gone and had herself a baby. But don’t think I’m done with Unstressed Syllables. In fact, we’ve got grand plans for the site that we intend to roll out this fall. We’re hoping […]
Unstressed Syllables and AaronPogue.com
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tweet I’ve been talking a lot about my self-publishing success lately. The story of my experience is (I hope) interesting to all my readers. But one thing I’ve talked about often here is audience analysis. Every good writer needs to know to whom he’s talking, and thanks to my recent success, my audience is starting […]
The Big Reveal
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Tweet Today saw the official release of the fourth book in my sci-fi series Ghost Targets. With that came the big reveal of our new cover design for the whole series. You can see it in the image to the right. I like the new look. I can’t wait to see it in the context […]
