ACADEMY: The Workshop Writing Academy

[Beth Pavell]

There have been a fair few lesson around world building of one form or another, I know, but I have an idea for a lesson on building more vivid description in the story. I'm thinking it could be entitled something like "A Touch of the Real" and would certainly include several exercises to try for practice (I've noticed that past lessons are very general in their advice. I'd like to get a bit more specific)

 

[AceTrainer14]

There have been a fair few lesson around world building of one form or another, I know, but I have an idea for a lesson on building more vivid description in the story. I'm thinking it could be entitled something like "A Touch of the Real" and would certainly include several exercises to try for practice (I've noticed that past lessons are very general in their advice. I'd like to get a bit more specific)

It sounds interesting; send me a lesson plan and I will look into it

 

[AceTrainer14]

Hey guys: we have not had any submissions for the Academy this month, so doing a public appeal to see if anyone wants to write up a lesson for late April/early May. If you have an interesting idea then send it through!

 

[CrystaI]

The whole July and this month had not yet posted any writing academy article. So may I nominate a topic for next month?

Since battles are an unavoidable topic for Pokemon, I would like to know more about "Action Scenes Writings".
Though, it is not really necessarily to be Pokemon-related. It can be the general action scenes writings for like martial art or swordplay combat between two fighters, or the gun battle crossfire during the chasing between police and criminals, or like the crushing of attack magics between two wizards in fantasy novels.
I would like to know more about how to write pictorial descriptions, such that actions are imaginable in the readers' head rather easily, and also it would read dramatically and spectacularly, so that the imaginable action scenes giving a thrilling and critical atmosphere.

I think this will be an interesting topic for an academy article.


Edited: Notification to @Legacy. Lesson 18 and 19 had not yet added into the Lesson Index on the opening post.

 

[AceTrainer14]

The whole July and this month had not yet posted any writing academy article. So may I nominate a topic for next month?

Since battles are an unavoidable topic for Pokemon, I would like to know more about "Action Scenes Writings".
Though, it is not really necessarily to be Pokemon-related. It can be the general action scenes writings for like martial art or swordplay combat between two fighters, or the gun battle crossfire during the chasing between police and criminals, or like the crushing of attack magics between two wizards in fantasy novels.
I would like to know more about how to write pictorial descriptions, such that actions are imaginable in the readers' head rather easily, and also it would read dramatically and spectacularly, so that the imaginable action scenes giving a thrilling and critical atmosphere.

I think this will be an interesting topic for an academy article.


Edited: Notification to @Legacy. Lesson 18 and 19 had not yet added into the Lesson Index on the opening post.

I apologize for the lack of article for last month: we were busy with the Awards and unexpected losses of judges and had to fill that in, so I did not have time to chase people up to write. Currently, Rediamond is writing a lesson for us on researching, which will be the July/August lesson.

Action Scenes is an interesting topic and could be if someone out there is willing to write it. I think splitting it up into Pokemon Battle writing and then writing action and fight sequences would make it easier. If anyone is willing to write something like that then let me know. We also have the potential sex scene lesson if anyone wants to write that up.

And I will update the index as soon as possible.

 

[AceTrainer14]

Index all updated, right up to our current lesson by Rediamond. It is very helpful so if you have not read check it out and get involved in the discussion!

Also, now that @Legacy has returned to the team, he will resume the management of this project, so send your ideas to him from now on!

 

[Misfit Angel]

I've taken the liberty of finding all of the old topics and grabbing links for them, since the forum change killed them:

LESSON INDEX

Lesson One: Description and World Building (June '12)
Lesson Two: Creating Fantastic Pokeworlds (July '12)
Lesson Three: Character Development (September '12)
Lesson Four: Writing Under Pressure (October '12)
Lesson Five: Getting Started (November '12)
Lesson Six: Christmas (December '12)
Lesson Seven: Writing Reviews (February '13)
Lesson Eight: Punctuation (March '13)
Lesson Nine: Plot Flow (April '13)
Lesson Ten: Plotting a Story for Character Development (June '13)
Lesson Eleven: How to Write Romance (July '13)
Lesson Twelve: Dialogue (August '13)
Lesson Thirteen: Building a World From the Ground Up (September/October '13)
Lesson Fourteen: Creating Your Own Region (November '13)
Lesson Fifteen: Adapting the Games (December '13/January '14)
Lesson Sixteen: Exposition (February '14)
Lesson Seventeen: Description for World Building (March/April '14)
Lesson Eighteen: Writing History, Government and Culture (May '14)
Lesson Nineteen: Basics of Poetry (June '14)
Lesson Twenty: Researching (July/August '14)
Lesson Twenty-One: Writing Action Scenes (September/October '14)

 

[Juliko]

These links have been nothing but helpful ever since I came here. I can't wait to try and utilize these for my current and future stories!

 

[Misfit Angel]

A new academy article has been released, Lesson Twenty-Five: Worldbuilding Revisit!

 

[Beth Pavell]

A new Academy article has been published, Lesson Twenty-Six: Punctuation Revisit!