Apr
06
Monthly writing reviews are plenty
1 min read
fictionwriting
Jan
27
All structured out?
2 min read
Jan
26
Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective
7 min read
Jan
20
How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)
6 min read
Dec
12
An example of a non-obvious lag measure
2 min read
Dec
09
Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)
1 min read
Dec
04
Separate the story outline from the story ideas, notes?
1 min read
Dec
03
My piece-by-piece scenes rarely work, but that's okay, and planning might help
4 min read
Dec
02
Distinguish conversation between stories about tropes from conversation about ideas
4 min read
Nov
29
A pre-reveal
1 min read
Nov
26
What do I like about fantasy fiction? Maybe the struggle with received wisdom
2 min read
Nov
23
"Agile worldbuilding" is great for scoping
1 min read
Nov
22
Scoping worldbuilding
3 min read
Nov
19
In a mystery, false leads don't have to be developed or specifically contradicted
1 min read
Nov
16
Book Review: Big Magic
2 min read
Nov
13
I want to write stories about people I don't understand, and I can't? (without understanding)
1 min read
Nov
12
A bunch of writing dichotomies that bother me
2 min read
Nov
11
How I think about fiction genre
3 min read
Oct
24
Assumptions I make about writing
4 min read
Oct
24
You can move a (prose) story forward outside of its scenes
4 min read
Oct
22
What might be wrong with planning a story?
1 min read
Oct
21
Continuity vs. worldbuilder's disease
3 min read
Oct
20
"Write a longer story"
4 min read
Oct
19
What might be missing from my stories?
7 min read
Oct
18
Respecting the art
5 min read
Oct
14
Contrast
1 min read
Oct
12
No hard feelings
1 min read
Oct
10
"Art is a support for life"
2 min read
Aug
26
A mystery story is made of a series of smaller mysteries
3 min read
Aug
22
To feel deep, a character needs to show up in multiple roles
1 min read
Aug
06
Idea: Try making every bullet of your outline wrong
1 min read
Jul
24
When rereading a story draft for editing, write down what's in your head about the scene
1 min read
Jul
23
A weekly writing review
1 min read
Jul
22
Beyond a daily writing habit
1 min read
Jun
30
Writing from an image prompt by focusing on the details
1 min read
Jun
21
Horror and escapist fantasy should go together
1 min read
Jun
19
Leaves in "Doc's Story"
1 min read
Jun
13
Drawing of the Three's minor characters
1 min read
Jun
02
Idea: Merging the branches
1 min read
May
31
I wrote the hard part first; now what?
1 min read
May
30
How do want and emotional need relate in fiction writing?
1 min read
May
29
Examples of relative clauses, restrictive, nonrestrictive, appositive, and participial
1 min read
May
28
A first draft should make sense?
2 min read
May
27
Idea: Plan possibilities
1 min read
May
27
Idea: Plan a story's pathos as much as its logos
2 min read
May
25
Idea: Plan in relation to a specific story that you like
1 min read
May
25
Idea: Write the interesting parts first
1 min read
May
23
Write characters better with an emotional needs image board
2 min read
May
22
Creating a single continuous passage in Twine
2 min read
May
21
Revisiting Strunk and White (parts 1 and 2)
1 min read