Dark is Not A Feeling
if Dina had simply condemned herself to an eternal “dark” place away from the light of her prince and others, without changing her skin color, would we have cornered the racism in that idea?
Tag: fiction writing
The Paper Cup: Make it Clear (Part 4)
Let’s look at how audience was put into our micro story about a paper cup based on what is explained versus what is understood.
ADF Basics: How to Write A Story About A Paper Cup
The idea behind this exercise is that an ideas doesn’t make a good story, craft makes a good story, and a writer should be able to move a reader with a story about anything—even a paper cup!
The Paper Cup: How to Write A Story (Part 1)
This is our raw story about a paper cup. We will follow the Paper Cup and look at its development given narrative device, dramatic line, and audience.
The Paper Cup: Narrator As Character (Part 2)
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the previous What Is Story? exercise and give it some narrative awareness.
Whether sitting in a fiction workshop or acting as a beta reader, it can be difficult for writers at any level to articulate actionable feedback for their writing peers. Remember these three tips for always giving relevant and objective peer feedback, which will also help you write better stories.
ADF: Dramatic Character
Dramatic character controls the dramatic line and character elements. The dramatic line represents the cycles of set-up, action, and suspense that create movement, imagery, and meaning in story, ultimately ensuring that
ADF: Dramatic Form
In ADF, the primary control Dramatic form concerns what the story is, who is telling the story, and how the story is told.
What is African dramatic form (ADF)?
In fiction writing and analysis, the three primary controls (or trees) of ADF are dramatic form, dramatic character, and dramatic mask.
The Negative Aesthetic
The negative aesthetic is the practice of creating imagery from a Black center and the process of identifying and rethinking anti-Black imagery so that it becomes from a Black center.