In On Writing (pages 134 and 135), Stephen King writes: I would argue that the paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing—the place where coherence begins and words stand a chance of becoming more than mere words. If the moment of quickening is to come, it
Inspiration is a funny thing. I read Worm and loved it. I could talk about different qualities that I loved. When it comes to am I inspired by this, there are a few different senses you could mean: 1. It made me feel strong emotions — yes. 2. I liked it
A long time ago, maybe a year back, I dumped a ton (maybe 50 or 100?) idea bullets into WorkFlowy. Some are questions, some are experiments, some are ideas to explore creatively. There are a lot of good ideas there, good questions. I've got another long list of
A problem I find I have run into a lot when writing fiction is rambling. I often start a scene not knowing where it is going to go. Sometimes this works out to great material. Just as often the scene I write doesn't have any meaning or soul,
In fiction it seems sometimes better to be clear than subtle. This is maybe the opposite of what you'd expect; there is a strain of thinking that values subtlety. It can be good. It also seems not to be strictly necessary. An example from Soul Music: The grin