fictionwriting

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
May
18

Ways to tell a "wide-angle" story

1 min read
May
17

Writing straight through works for getting words down on an interactive story

1 min read
May
16

Draft an interactive story by writing straight through, then splitting

1 min read
May
10

Event horizons in worldbuilding: Worm

1 min read
Apr
29

Creating that starts with destroying

1 min read
Apr
26

Story circle: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

1 min read
Apr
23

Viewing stories as spacious

1 min read
Apr
20

Find the tension

1 min read
Apr
19

Outlining the "On Writing" part of On Writing

1 min read
Apr
18

"Always flat and unfeatured to begin with"

1 min read
Apr
17

Paragraphs as the smallest living unit of prose

3 min read
Apr
17

Inspiration

1 min read
Apr
02

Too many ideas vs. no ideas

1 min read
Feb
20

Rambling when writing fiction

1 min read
Jan
11

Clarity over subtlety in fiction-writing, about an antagonist

3 min read
Jan
05

An abstract paragraph

1 min read
Dec
04

Writing "classic" scene types

2 min read
Nov
30

Editing and atomic intentions

2 min read
Nov
29

Surprising yourself

1 min read
Nov
28

Scene lengths in short stories

3 min read
Nov
27

Draft look: "TP" 1

4 min read
Nov
26

Frame bugs

3 min read
Nov
25

Set 'em up and knock 'em down

1 min read
Nov
24

Consequences in "Juromaru and Kageromaru"

2 min read
Nov
21

Attractor states in fiction

6 min read
Nov
20

Satisfying endings

3 min read
Nov
19

Scenes that have no causal consequences

2 min read
Nov
17

Failure to surprise

1 min read