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    Roads to Writing. 3 Exposition
    Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas
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    Roads To Writing 1. Making Your Characters Speak Series

    By David McRobbie

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    About this series

    The third Roads to Writing essay deals with Exposition, which is an essential part of all storytelling. It is the who, when, why, how and where of what went before. Exposition is background that makes sense of the foreground in your story. In this essay there is discussion on how exposition works followed by exercises and examples. There are scenarios that ask the reader to create their own exposition as well as clumsy passages that the reader is invited to edit and improve.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid McRobbie
    Release dateSep 21, 2014
    Roads to Writing. 3 Exposition
    Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas

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    • Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas
      Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas

      Roads To Writing 2. Finding Story Ideas

      David McRobbie
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      4/5 - 1 rating

      In the second Roads To Writing, we explore the important business of getting ideas for our stories. As David McRobbie, points out you need an idea to start your story and a whole succession of them to keep it going. The first part talks about the beginning of ideas and where they come from. The second part is a workshop on how to find ideas and what to do with them. The third part deals with the business of planning your stories. How far should you go and is a plan necessarily a good thing? The final part is in the form of a workshop where David shows how he got ideas for two of his successful stories and what he did to develop the them. There is also a story outline that has not been written and exists only as a few ideas. This gives you the opportunity to join in on this creative process and decide what you’d do.

      In the second Roads To Writing, we explore the important business of getting ideas for our stories. As David McRobbie, points out you need an idea to start your story and a whole succession of them to keep it going. The first part talks about the beginning of ideas and where they come from. The second part is a workshop on how to find ideas and what to do with them. The third part deals with the business of planning your stories. How far should you go and is a plan necessarily a good thing? The final part is in the form of a workshop where David shows how he got ideas for two of his successful stories and what he did to develop the them. There is also a story outline that has not been written and exists only as a few ideas. This gives you the opportunity to join in on this creative process and decide what you’d do.

    • Roads to Writing. 3 Exposition
      Roads to Writing. 3 Exposition

      Roads to Writing. 3 Exposition

      David McRobbie
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      The third Roads to Writing essay deals with Exposition, which is an essential part of all storytelling. It is the who, when, why, how and where of what went before. Exposition is background that makes sense of the foreground in your story. In this essay there is discussion on how exposition works followed by exercises and examples. There are scenarios that ask the reader to create their own exposition as well as clumsy passages that the reader is invited to edit and improve.

      The third Roads to Writing essay deals with Exposition, which is an essential part of all storytelling. It is the who, when, why, how and where of what went before. Exposition is background that makes sense of the foreground in your story. In this essay there is discussion on how exposition works followed by exercises and examples. There are scenarios that ask the reader to create their own exposition as well as clumsy passages that the reader is invited to edit and improve.

    Author

    David McRobbie

    David McRobbie was born in Glasgow in 1934. After an apprenticeship he joined the Merchant Navy as a marine engineer and sailed the world, or some of it. Eventually he worked his passage to Australia, got married and settled down for a bit only to move to Papua New Guinea where he trained as a teacher. Subsequently he found work as a college lecturer, then a researcher for parliament. Back in Australia in 1974 he joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a producer of radio and television programs for young people. In 1990 he gave up this work to become a full time writer for children and young adults. He has written over thirty paperbacks, mainly novels, but some are collections of short stories, plays and 'how-to' books on creative writing. Three of his novels were adapted for television, with David writing all of the sixty-five scripts — the first being The Wayne Manifesto in 1996, followed by Eugénie Sandler, PI then Fergus McPhail. These shows were broadcast throughout the world, including Australia and Britain on BBC and ITV. The BBC adapted another of David's novels for television — See How They Run, which became the first BBC/ABC co-production. At the age of 79, David is still at work. His most recent paperback novels are Vinnie's War, (Allen & Unwin) published in 2011, about childhood evacuation in the second world war. This was followed by To Brave The Seas, in 2013, a story about a 14-year-old boy who sails in Atlantic convoys during WW2. Both books are available online.

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