I had a professor once who used little-o notation to describe error terms in matrix calculations. I had no context for this notation so had close to zero understanding of what he meant by any of these cryptic equations. I still wonder about this sometimes. These would look something like
A problem I have tended to run into when editing stories is intending edits that are bigger than they sound. I'll think about, or sometimes write down, a plan for an edit I want to make, and it will be more work than it sounds like in theory.
Surprising yourself is a surprisingly effective way to write more interesting fiction. (At least it seems to work for me; YMMV, n_tries = 2, et cetera.) The key exercise, from Jacob Krueger, is this: You close your eyes and, if you’re a strongly visual person, start looking. If you’
Quantitatively, how is a short story usually split into scenes? How many scenes are they? How long are they? I'm interested in these questions as a way of sanity-checking my scene lengths. To answer these questions, I looked at an arbitrary (convenience) sample of six short stories I&
(Disclaimer: Probably only useful to me right now. This is an analysis of a draft I wrote, but in extremely vague terms.) I want to look at a first draft of a story I wrote and take some notes on what is there. There are a bunch of places where