Here we have fictional characters from various famous novels rendered pictorally by police artists.
The Shakespearean Tabletop RPG!
Paul Budra, of Simon Fraser University, has created Play Extempore, the Shakespearean tabletop role-playing game — and has put it online free! (more…)
Pulp Report – First Story Progress
I’ve finished the first part of this four-part short story. The goal is to write a short story according to the F-H system, and in combination with the Doc Savage formula. (more…)
Pulp Exercise – Rewrite for Emotion
The goal here is to rewrite the following passage to conform to the F-H “wheel of now” cycle: lead with future-oriented emotion, follow with intellectual, factual information.
The rule is:
There must be movement in two directions, a fact (looking and rolling backward) and a feeling (looking and rolling forward) in virtually every sentence of your story (Formulas, 50).
The goal here is not to create a good piece of writing, but an emotionally powerful piece of writing – even inappropriately powerful for the content. (more…)
