fictionwriting

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

Nov

17

Unhelpful ways to think about try/fail cycles and stakes

4 min read

Nov

13

Repetition

1 min read

Oct

27

Dense description

2 min read

Oct

23

Explaining intent in dialog

1 min read

Oct

22

Cliches

1 min read