Showing posts with label craft of writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft of writing. Show all posts
Thursday, July 03, 2025

Bad Advice for Writers

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Searching on this topic recently, I came upon two thought-provoking lists (doubtless two among many). The general message of both is that as...
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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Sensible Style: Writing in the 21st Century

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Last week I reread Steven Pinker's THE SENSE OF STYLE (2014), subtitled "The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Cen...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Quantity Versus Quality?

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Are quantity and quality incompatible strategies or goals? Not according to the observations in these and other similar essays: Quantity L...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Do Spoilers Really Spoil?

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The latest issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER includes an article exploring whether advance exposure to spoilers actually makes the experience of r...
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, February 22, 2024

Hooking Without Overwhelming

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One of my publishers hosts weekly author chats. I recently read the transcript of a chat that warned against "overwhelming" the re...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Character Brainstorming with AI

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Here's a WRITER'S DIGEST article about how an author might use ChatGPT as an aid to composition without actually having the program ...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

SF Terminology Goofs

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I've started watching the second season of MY DAD THE BOUNTY HUNTER, a cartoon series on Netflix. Some dialogue passages reminded me of ...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

On Character Growth

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There's an essay on the WRITER'S DIGEST website called "The Importance of Character Growth in Fiction," by bestselling aut...
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Ideal Writing Day

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The e-mail list for authors of one of my publishers had a fun discussion thread last week: What would your ideal writing day be like? I en...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

He, She, It , or They Said

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Nowadays a widely accepted piece of advice about writing fiction sternly rebukes any use of dialogue tags other than the simple, almost invi...
Thursday, April 06, 2023

Must Fiction Have Conflict?

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I recently read FANTASY: HOW IT WORKS, by Brian Attebery, a distinguished scholar of fantasy and science fiction. In addition to the solid c...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

AI Sermons?

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To follow up the topic of "creative" artificial intelligence programs, here are some clergy-persons' thoughts about sermons co...
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Friday, November 04, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 6 Conclusion

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Writer's Craft Article Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 6 Conclusion by Karen S. Wiesner Based on Cohesive Story...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 5D General Revision Choices, concluded

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Writer's Craft Article Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 5D General Revision Choices, concluded by Karen S. Wiesne...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Karen S. Wiesner: Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 5D General Revision Choices, continued

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Writer's Craft Article Fiction Fundamentals: Writing Elbow Grease, Part 5D General Revision Choices, continued by Karen S. Wiesne...