Assumptions I make about writing

I've noticed a few assumptions in my approach to creative writing and learning about it. Some I even agree with. These remain subject to change on new experience. Here are a few: 1. Experimental prose, poetry, etc. is 'not for me.' I don't read

Hiatus until 11/03

I'll be on vacation until 11/03. That's too many days to write posts ahead for, unlike Fluidity Forum's mere weekend. So, I won't be posting again until 11/03.

You can move a (prose) story forward outside of its scenes

In a video on "show, don't tell," Tim Hickson quotes an interesting passage from Ken Liu's "The Paper Menagerie": If Mom spoke to me in Chinese, I refused to answer her. After a while, she tried to use more English. But her

What might be wrong with planning a story?

I'm uncomfortable with planning a story. I get especially uneasy about using a system to plan. An outline is already a system and that's uncomfortable enough. But it seems worth trying. I worry mechanical planning might result in a story that's boringly predictable. That

Continuity vs. worldbuilder's disease

At the moment, when I write a story, I don't have long notes. I have maybe a handful of sentences. I don't have supporting documents or an extensive plan. I previously noted a feeling that the stories I write lack a sense of continuity or grounding.