Writing With Feechies: Week 2 (Adult) • The Habit

Lecture 4: Where Did Feechiefolk Come From?

Writing Exercise

Think of two people who are from such different walks of life that you would never expect them to be in the same room together. Now find a reason to put them in the same room together. What happens next?

Lecture 5: The Wilderking Chant

Reflection Questions

Remember “Bayard’s Wisdom for Writers” from Lecture 5:

Start wherever you can start.
Tell the story that unfolds before you.
Live in the here-and-now, concrete world rather than the world of the big, abstract idea.

What are some tendencies in your own writing habits that make it hard for you to implement this advice? In what ways are you already implementing this advice? How can you build on that success?

Remember: to improve as a writer, building on success is at least as important as fixing problems.

Lecture 6: Writing In-Scene and Out-of-Scene

Writing Exercise

Write a scene in which you move from “out-of-scene” to “in-scene” (or vice versa). If you’re not clear on the difference, check out these two places where the narration moves from out-of-scene to in-scene in The Bark of the Bog Owl:

p. 49-50 (out-of-scene to the end of p.49, in-scene at the top of p.50)
p. 56 (out-of-scene before the printer’s mark, in-scene after printer’s mark)