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Category: Writing

What I’m learning along the path to becoming a writer.

Getting Ready for Anything

By Dennis Cherry Posted on June 14, 2020 Posted in GLAWS, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference, Writing
Getting Ready for Anything

If you go to this Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/events/520330468630105/  you will see our ad for the next Greater Los Angeles Writers Conference.  You will see what we’re planning, our educational tracts for Aspiring, Active and Accomplished writers, our ProCritiques™ and our …

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Looking Backward, Looking Forward

By Dennis Cherry Posted on May 17, 2020 Posted in GLAWS, Stay at Home, Writing Tagged with Art Holcomb, GLAWS, screen writing, Stay at Home, USC Cinema/Television, Writing
Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Yes, that is a handwritten version of a script.  Actually, it’s the first version of a Christmas story I have been working on for a number of years.  It’s taken a back seat to my Steampunk trilogy I’m currently working …

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Critique This

By Dennis Cherry Posted on May 3, 2020 Posted in GLAWS, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Writing
Critique This

I didn’t get any writing done this week.  Not that I was lazy, I had to critique three stories for my critique group that met yesterday.  Usually I try to write during the week and do my critiques on the …

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GLAWS Rewrites Itself

By Dennis Cherry Posted on April 19, 2020 Posted in GLAWS, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Writing
GLAWS Rewrites Itself

The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is an active group.  We have critique groups that meet once or twice a month, depending on the group, we have monthly Special Speaker Events that are open to the public and we, along …

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What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time.

By Dennis Cherry Posted on April 5, 2020 Posted in Fun Stuff, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Writing
What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time.

Sometimes I just like to have fun and play one of my favorite refrigerator games, “Name That Leftover”.  But you can really only play it once a month.  Or every two months.  Three or more months gets really challenging. And …

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What if we had just called it the flu all along?

By Dennis Cherry Posted on March 22, 2020 Posted in Writing Tagged with Writing

Words have meaning.  Words have power.  Our choice of words determine how we process information.  Recently President Trump got flack for calling Covid-19 the “China Flu”.  One reporter asked him if that wasn’t racist.  Well, no it isn’t.  China isn’t …

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WHAT NOT TO SAY

By admin Posted on January 25, 2015 Posted in GLAWS, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Steven Hutson, Writing

The first GLAWS special speaker event of the year was held last weekend on Saturday, January 17, 2015.  The topic was “What Not to Say to an Editor or Agent” with speaker Steven Hutson.  Mr. Hutson is a literary agent …

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A NEW BEGINNING

By admin Posted on January 4, 2015 Posted in GLAWS, Steampunk, Writing Tagged with GLAWS, Goals, Writing

New Year is a great time to restart and reboot.  So first off, sorry for being away for so long.  It started with me missing a week, then another, then another.  So I finally decided that instead of trying to …

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Bronies Anonymous

By admin Posted on September 22, 2014 Posted in Fun Stuff, Writing Tagged with brony, My Little Pony, pegasister, Writing

Hi.  My name is Dennis Amador Cherry and I’m a brony.  I guess it started a few years ago when somepony someone showed me the first couple of episode of “My Little Pony:  Friendship is Magic”.  I thought it was …

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The Dreaded “Info Dump”

By admin Posted on September 12, 2014 Posted in Writing Tagged with Info Dump, Writing

  Often in a story a character has to learn some pieces of information in order for the plot to keep moving.  Sometimes it’s a few lines, sometimes it’s a whole lot of information that threatens to bring the fast …

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