Plot or Character? Which Comes First?
Structure for Gardeners - Part III Back in the summer, when the world – and me – were getting over the first panic wave of our life with...
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Terry Brennan
Nov 11, 20203 min read
Structure for Gardeners - Part II
On Monday we looked at an overview to the idea of plot structure ... you have an idea and, hopefully, some sense of where the book is...
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Terry Brennan
Nov 9, 20204 min read
From a Small Seed ...
Structure For Gardeners – Part I - Overview In September (Hero’s Journey) and October (Plot Skeleton) I offered several blog posts taken...
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Terry Brennan
Nov 3, 20202 min read
A Declaration Prayer for Peace
I heard an example once - and I hope I get this right. There are ten blue socks and ten green socks in a drawer. How many do you need to...
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Terry Brennan
Nov 2, 20202 min read
News Flash!
We disrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking news! Okay, maybe it’s not that monumental, but I’m going to...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 30, 20204 min read
Healing Resurrects Design
“Everything about you – your personality, your intellect, your physical body, your history – everything about you is perfectly designed...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 28, 20204 min read
Disobedience Destroys Intimacy
A short intro: As I mentioned on Monday, for the past several years I’ve been working on a non-fiction book. The book’s title is Rescuing...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Obedience Determines Destiny
God makes it clear that the one thing that is most important to him, the one thing that decides man’s destiny, is obedience.
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Terry Brennan
Oct 23, 20203 min read
A Prophet, a Mystic and a Genius -- II
A History of the Vilna Gaon - Part II The character of the Vilna Gaon in the Empires of Armageddon series is based on the life of a real...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 21, 20205 min read
A Prophet, a Mystic, and a Genius
A History of the Vilna Gaon - Part I The character of the Vilna Gaon in the Empires of Armageddon series is based on the life of a real...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 21, 20201 min read
Link to Seminar Video for Plot Skeleton
In case you want to see the entire Facebook Live broadcast I did for the Plot Skeleton writing seminar, you can check it out at this...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 20, 20205 min read
Plot Skeleton - Part IV
Today, we complete our review of the writing tool, the Plot Skeleton. If you’ve been with me from the beginning, you know that all this...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 16, 20205 min read
Plot Skeleton - Part III
On Monday I shared with you an Overview of the Plot Skeleton tool and followed that up on Wednesday with the first stage of the Plot...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 14, 20205 min read
Plot Skeleton - Part II
Today we’re going to pick up where we left off on Monday, when I gave you an introduction to Plot Skeleton. This is the second segment of...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 12, 20203 min read
Plot Skeleton - Part I
I’ve been writing novels since 2005 and in June and July of 2020 I set out to do a series of seminars on some of the basic concepts of...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 9, 20203 min read
Get Your Programs ... Here!
This week is giving you a little peek into the beginning of my life as a sports fan and my early life in Philadelphia. Monday I shared...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 7, 20203 min read
Baseball - at .50 cents a Ticket
Monday I shared with you a little bit of the history of Shibe Park, the baseball home of the Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies. In...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 5, 20202 min read
The History of Shibe Park
From 1970 to 1992, I spent 22 years working in my 'first' career, as a journalist. The majority of the first 15 years I worked as a...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 2, 20201 min read
Video Link to Hero's Journey
In case you are interested in watching the Facebook Live transmission of the Hero's Journey Writing Seminar, you can click on this link:...
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Terry Brennan
Oct 2, 20205 min read
Hero's Journey - Part III
The Hero’s Journey Part III As noted in earlier blogs, in June and July of 2020 I set out to do a series of seminars on some of the basic...
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