Showing posts with label writing fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing fiction. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

CHANGE OF HEART: the quandary of the comeuppance

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Today’s blog picks up from last week’s blog , which was based on the movie, Serenity . (A great flick and one I heartily recommend if you’ve...
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Monday, April 07, 2008

On the Road with Questions and Answers

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I've spent the past two weekends on the road (yes, it's the silly season again), teaching writing workshops and doing book signings ...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

Oh, The Pain...Characters and Conflict

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I haven't skinned a character alive, as Cindy notes in her recent blog entry but as she also notes, it's not just the physical pain...
Monday, February 25, 2008

More Great First Lines

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Continuing the previous blog... I happen to teach workshops in writing great and grabber opening paragraphs and scenes. So I much enjoyed CI...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

Craft of Writing: Vividness outrank Brevity

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Eons ago, when I was studying for my private pilot's license, I used to read Flying magazine and a column called I Learned About Flying...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

7 of Swords - Conflict Avoidance

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As noted previously, this is a chapter in a book about the Tarot aimed at Intermediate students, not beginners or advanced students. It is p...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Aliens Who Give Rise to Vampire Legends

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Folks: Cindy Holby wrote Friday June 15th: -------------- So after I had a morning meltdown we put our heads together. And what did we come ...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

I'm a meez-ing

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[warning: rampant silliness] I was all set to do something writerly and genre-ly about aliens and legends and our books and how our characte...
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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Strange Brews

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I think my aural memory is very good, but sometimes it isn't. For instance, I was absolutely certain that I knew the opening lines to Th...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

Flying Solo

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(This essay was originally written several years ago for Futures magazine, and it garnered me a Pushcart Literary nomination...so I thought ...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

What flavor am I?

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In keeping with Murphy’s Law, I’ve had a very busy teaching schedule the past two months. This, of course, happening when I’m late on book d...
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Monday, February 05, 2007

Whose World Is This Anyway?

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I just found out that along with RITA winning author Robin D "HeartMate" Owens, I’ll be teaching a world building workshop at RWA ...
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