Hi Donald, and welcome.
What do you have in mind? A virtual writing group?
Part Two
My time expired to edit the previous message, (Didn't know I had a set amount of time.) Anywho, no problem, I'll place it here on "Son of 'it would be nice to discuss writing'"
These are the features in a good book for a Creative Writing 101 class. It's called "Literature: How to read and write."
Here are the topics it covers--
1. Introduction: Reading, Responding to, and Writing about Literature.
What Is Literature, and Why do We Study It? Types of Literatures: The Genres. Reading Literature and Responding to It Actively.
2. Fiction: an Overview
Modern Fiction.
The Short Story.
Elements of Fiction I:
Verisimilitude and Donnée.
Elements of Fiction II:
Character, Plot, Structure, and Idea or Theme.
Elements of Fiction III: The Writer’s Tools.
Plot: The Motivation and Causation of Fiction. Writing about the Plot of a Story. Illustrative Student Essay: Plot in Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”. Special Topics for Writing and Argument about Plot in Fiction.
3. Structure: The Organization of Stories.
The Structure of Fiction. Formal Categories of Structure. Formal and Actual Structure.
4. Characters: The People in Fiction.
Character Traits. How Authors Disclose Character in Literature. Types of Characters: Round and Flat. Reality and Probability: Verisimilitude.
5. Point of View: The Position or Stance of the Narrator or Speaker.
6. Setting: The Background of Place, Objects, and Culture in Stories.
What Is Setting? The Literary Uses of Setting.
7. Style: The Words That Tell the Story.
Diction: The Writer’s Choice and Control of Words. Rhetoric: The Writer’s Choices of Effective Arrangements and Forms. Style in General.
8. Tone: The Expression of Attitude in Fiction.
Tone and Attitudes. Tone and Humor. Tone and Irony.
9. Symbolism and Allegory: Keys to Extended Meaning.
Symbolism. Allegory. Fable, Parable, and Myth. Allusion in Symbolism and Allegory.
10. Idea or Theme: The Meaning and the Message in Fiction.
An even better book is Story By Robert McKee. It goes into even greater detail.
A free online gathering of nice people eager to be fully engaged in learning the concepts and discussing their own and the other member's writings would be a place where some magic could occur.
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