Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Mar 15 2010
Is a whole novel impossible? Maybe, if it's handled as one big task.
Peter Graves passed away this last weekend. We remember him for many things, but his time on Mission:Impossible is probably the first thing that the majority of us recall. His character halped make those impossible series of tasks come together into an achievable goal. The stories were fiction, but the principal of planning was there in every story. Even when things went wrong there were enough other details in place so that the missions were accomplished, time after time.
The other thing about the show that impressed me, once I took time to think about it, was the idea that a seemingly impossible task can often only be accomplished as a series of very small tasks put together with ideal timing. When we sit down to write we're often overwhelmed with the thought of producing a story long enough to be a whole novel. But with planning, strategic timing and the breaking down of the project into a series of smaller tasks, novels happen.
posted at: 08:30 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Peter Graves passed away this last weekend. We remember him for many things, but his time on Mission:Impossible is probably the first thing that the majority of us recall. His character halped make those impossible series of tasks come together into an achievable goal. The stories were fiction, but the principal of planning was there in every story. Even when things went wrong there were enough other details in place so that the missions were accomplished, time after time.
The other thing about the show that impressed me, once I took time to think about it, was the idea that a seemingly impossible task can often only be accomplished as a series of very small tasks put together with ideal timing. When we sit down to write we're often overwhelmed with the thought of producing a story long enough to be a whole novel. But with planning, strategic timing and the breaking down of the project into a series of smaller tasks, novels happen.
posted at: 08:30 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
