fictionwriting

06

Apr

Monthly writing reviews are plenty

1 min read

27

Jan

All structured out?

2 min read

26

Jan

Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective

7 min read

20

Jan

How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)

6 min read

12

Dec

An example of a non-obvious lag measure

2 min read

09

Dec

Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)

1 min read

04

Dec

Separate the story outline from the story ideas, notes?

1 min read

03

Dec

My piece-by-piece scenes rarely work, but that's okay, and planning might help

4 min read

02

Dec

Distinguish conversation between stories about tropes from conversation about ideas

4 min read

29

Nov

A pre-reveal

1 min read

26

Nov

What do I like about fantasy fiction? Maybe the struggle with received wisdom

2 min read

23

Nov

"Agile worldbuilding" is great for scoping

1 min read

22

Nov

Scoping worldbuilding

3 min read

19

Nov

In a mystery, false leads don't have to be developed or specifically contradicted

1 min read

16

Nov

Book Review: Big Magic

2 min read

13

Nov

I want to write stories about people I don't understand, and I can't? (without understanding)

1 min read

12

Nov

A bunch of writing dichotomies that bother me

2 min read

11

Nov

How I think about fiction genre

3 min read

24

Oct

Assumptions I make about writing

4 min read

24

Oct

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

4 min read

22

Oct

What might be wrong with planning a story?

1 min read

21

Oct

Continuity vs. worldbuilder's disease

3 min read

20

Oct

"Write a longer story"

4 min read

19

Oct

What might be missing from my stories?

7 min read

18

Oct

Respecting the art

5 min read