(Disclaimer: Probably only useful to me right now. This is an analysis of a draft I wrote, but in extremely vague terms.) I want to look at a first draft of a story I wrote and take some notes on what is there. There are a bunch of places where
I often find that while I'm writing about or discussing an issue, it turns out that the way I initially framed things was wrong. Not factually wrong, exactly, but as I am writing I find that the way I framed things suggests consequences that are silly. This doesn&
Every well-written main character in fiction has a why. They may not be able to rationally explain it, but they have it. Often, though, they can explain it — if not completely then partly. One important thing that stories and writers do with this is what I'm calling "
The Inuyasha episode "Juromaru and Kageromaru" is kind of weird. It is weird to me in that its scene-level consequences don't look like the stereotypical example. but it is also weird because even the episode-level consequence doesn't look like the stereotypical example. The show&
(Working through an idea. The working through was useful and maybe there are useful things in here as a result. Ironically I don't think the idea of attractor states was one of them.) When I write fiction, I sometimes end up writing myself into boring situations. For example: