Showing posts with label craft of writing fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft of writing fiction. Show all posts
Thursday, June 06, 2024

Leave Them Wanting More?

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Here's an essay by Cory Doctorow about fiction, movies, and games giving audiences what they need instead of what they want, or think th...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Becoming a Dark Lord/Lady

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Is it possible to be a good Dark Lord (or Lady)? The term "good" in this context is ambiguous. It can mean competent, skilled at c...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Guest Author Post

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This week we have a guest blog, in Q & A form, from multi-genre author Karen Hulene Bartell: "What inspired you to begin writing?...
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Thursday, August 06, 2020

Dislikable Characters

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What does it take to turn you off fictional characters so thoroughly you don't want to read about them? Even if I dislike some aspects o...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Shadow of the Beast

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My first published novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, a werewolf urban fantasy with romantic elements, is back in print after a few years of dorman...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Current Events in Fiction

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One of my e-mail lists recently had a discussion about the wisdom of referring to the COVID-19 crisis in fictional works. One concern was th...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Accessible Writing

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The April 2020 issue of RWR (magazine of the Romance Writers of America) contains an article titled "The Literary Craft of Accessibilit...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Science in SF, Continued

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The second part of Kelly Lagor's LOCUS article on "Putting the 'Science' in Science Fiction" is here: Putting the Sc...
Thursday, February 06, 2020

Going Deeper

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A few weeks ago, the associate rector of our church delivered a sermon sparked by the question, "What do you want?" Beyond and ben...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Science in SF

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A LOCUS article by Kelly Lagor discusses how accurate the science in science fiction needs to be: Putting the Science in Science Fiction ...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Worlds with Depth

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The Fall/Winter issue of MYTHLORE includes an article by Katherine Sas on creating the "impression of depth" in a work of fiction ...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Sequels, Prequels, and Reading Order

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Should the audience for a sequel be able to understand it completely without having read the previous book(s)? The EPIC e-book contest allow...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Why Does Writing Get Harder?

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Kameron Hurley's latest column tackles the question of why writing fiction gets harder instead of easier with experience: Why Does Wri...
Thursday, October 03, 2019

Bait-and-Switch Book Beginnings

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Stephen King's latest novel (which I consider one of his best recent works), THE INSTITUTE, starts with a long section from the viewpoin...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Hard and Soft SF

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The September-October 2019 MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION contains an article that indirectly addresses the perennial question of d...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

In Defense of Unsuspicious Immersion

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The May 2018 issue of PMLA (the journal of the Modern Language Association) contains an article by Faye Halpern titled "Beyond Contempt...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

Fictional Chronology Versus Real-Life Time

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How do you handle the problem when the timeline of a fictional series slides out of sync with the real passage of time? The novels in my vam...
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Writing and Storytelling

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Kameron Hurley's column in the current LOCUS discusses the difference between stringing together a succession of events and actually tel...
Monday, December 14, 2009

AN OFFICER AND...

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2010 is going to be the start of a rather busy on-line workshop year for me. I’m starting by co-teaching a workshop on building space/fantas...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

WORKSHOP! Sharpen Thy Keyboard...

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Since I'm once again in deadline hell (with a short story for a Gardner Dozois and George RR Martin anthology...), I'm going to use ...