Aug
26
A mystery story is made of a series of smaller mysteries
3 min read
fictionwriting
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