THE MAGAZINE POST FOR WRITERS
In this issue: A harrowing tale of Africa … PLUS … What happens after your last story is written? Is it correct that you should ‘write what you know’?
YOU KNOW IT’S THE WRITE WAY
WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT?
Welcome to Issue Two of Scribblers’ News. If you missed the first issue, don’t worry, it was months ago, and I let it go. Now, however, I thought I’d resurrect it, as I have lots of writers’ posts in the archives that have never been read.
This is what my Magazine Posts are all about. This is the 529th post on Beyond the Blog, yet it is only in the last six months or so that I actually grasped an audience. So resurrection of my past is the theme.
I had an audience once before.
This was in the 1990s. I was a small press editor who published lots and lots of small press magazines – including, incidentally, one called Scribblers’ News, so this is nostalgic for me indeed.
Of course, my audience wasn’t as big as the one I’ve got now – something that I am most appreciative about. So what did my magazines cover in the past? A wide variety of subjects, a little like Beyond the Blog.
And it included articles on how to write – rather like this Magazine Post.
Now, seeing that I’ve never had any writing instruction myself, this may seem a bit of a cheek. But alongside the magazine I DID have hundreds of pieces published independently, and also a couple of books.
So maybe I do know a thing or two – or maybe not. You see, that’s for you to decide. There follows a short story and a couple of ‘how to write’ posts. I don’t claim to ‘know’ – it’s just the way it seems to me.
© Anthony North, December 2007
THE RAPE OF AFRICA
When Africa cried the jungle seemed to weep in sympathy. I could hear it now as I stood, ears pricked back to the noise. All about me untold sounds echoed – the birds, the insects, all joining in the omnipotent dirge …
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AFTER THE LAST STORY
The answer’s obvious. After the last story, the next one – and pretty damned quick. You see, there’s nothing quite like reading the finished piece, knowing you’ve created it – the plot, the characters, the descriptiveness, the dialogue …
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WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW
Write what you know. That’s what we’re told. If we don’t know about it, how can we write about it? Actually, quite easily. Life is full of experience, and we have a mind to relate those experiences into many areas of our lives …
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