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New to LJ, and DS is my OTF.I saw the 2010 comment about posting here to prevent purging of community, and then didn't see a 2011 post, so I decided to BE the 2011 post.
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Dogsledding-what is it like in practice?
I've always been fascinated by dogsledding, possibly due to an overdose of "Call of the Wild" as a child (the Jack London book, that is, not the due South episode or the Robert Service poem). When I first saw the pilot of due South, it was the dogsledding that drew me in as much as, well, other things ( Read more... ) -
narrative vs. non-narrative plotting (the non-A-B-C-D plot Q)
Firstly, my apologies on the tardiness of this piece. I was supposed to go a week or two after nos4a2no9. Riiiight. *sigh* Anyway, here we go!
The original question was:
“What's the best way to structure a story that doesn't use a conventional A-B-C plotline? I want (desperately) to write a story that manipulates time and incorporates a lot of ( Read more... ) -
Life In Northern Canada (Part Deux)
Hi everyone!
I promised ages ago to write a follow-up post to my first workshop piece on Life In Northern Canada. sageness and a few other folks had specific questions they wanted me to address, hence the sequel. If you're looking for more general topics about northern Canada, such as landscape and geography, weather, the role of the RCMP, shopping and ( Read more... ) -
"Would that make you the Mount-ee or the Mount-ed?": The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hello everyone! I'm Nos, your friendly resident Canadian liaison, and I'm here to kick off a shiny new round of ds_workshop posts with a discussion of everyone's favourite para-military force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( Read more... ) -
2008 craft of writing series kick-off! \o/
Hey all! Guess what? DS_Workshop's hiatus is over! We'll be starting off a new series of Workshop posts next week with a post from nos4a2no9 about the RCMP. YAY!!
What we need now are volunteers to go in the weeks after Nos.
How to volunteer:
1. Go pick out a question from the master question list. There are still LOTS of craft of writing/DS-specific ( Read more... ) -
round table discussion: villains!
Several people seconded an off-handed mention of doing a post on writing villains -- and LOTS of us are doing either Due South Seekrit Santa and/or Yuletide this holiday season, so this is hopefully a very timely and relevant post. Feel free to pimp this far and wide because I'd love to get a good range of discussion going in the comments ( Read more... ) -
Volunteer Call!
Hey everybody!
I've been a little swamped with getting DS_Match underway with china_shop, so the Craft Series has taken a little hiatus. However, just because *I've* been swamped doesn't necessarily mean that everyone else has. *g*
So...THIS post is the volunteer call for the next round of the Craft Series. Here is the master question list. If you have ( Read more... ) -
Writing From a Non-Human Perspective.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that’s most likely to mean Dief in this fandom. There’s just not that much Turtle fic out there. In fact the only one I know of is elementalv’s Mortal Enemies. It’s only a drabble, but I’m of the firm belief that it’s more than enough to instill a deep and abiding respect for The Turtle Mind ( Read more... )