There is a real HI THIS IS A NEW YEAR AND I HAVE THINGS TO DO post coming soon, cross my heartsies, but for now, this landed in my inbox and amused me greatly, and is entirely appropriate (I feel) for my first day back at work. If you don’t know the original, a) you’re […]
I’ve blogging about this here before, but it can always stand a reprise… Finally, I figured out why it is that I don’t like depressing fiction in any form. I thought about trying to explain this to some of the people that know me in person, but really, it’s a kind of weird, complicated answer
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Whee! I made the arts! (click to embiggen) Some context. For quite a while now (read: the last few years), I have been sorely lamenting my lack of time for hobbies that I enjoy. Mostly this applies to writing, but I’ve also been itching to get back to drawing and arting. Maggie Stiefvater has been
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Okay, again with another inaccurate time reference in the opening due to this being a repost, but you get when I mean 😉 Two Fridays ago, I made a promise to you that I would be back this week to contradict myself. Well, ta da!, here I am B-) In said post, I discussed the concept
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I read this fantastic article the other day about drawer novels. If you have a minute to spare, definitely go read it – and make sure you check out the comments, where people have to give a 25 word (or less) description of a novel they’ve drawered. There are some hilarious ones there – it’ll make you
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I think this is the last repost for a while, but again, obviously, when I start with ‘last week’, that now means ‘several years ago’ 😉 😀 A little over a week ago, Liana Brooks posted an article called ‘Good, Better, Best‘. In it, she discussed the various things she would have to do in
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In a similar vein to the last repost, and again, applicable to a lot more than just writing…….. I was originally going to title this post ‘A New Cure For Writers’ Block’. But really, it’s not a new cure, for either the world in general, or myself. You’ve heard me talk about it before; the
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Okay, so first of all, this post was bizarrely popular on my old blog. Second of all, it can be applied to many, many things other than writing. Hmm, maybe the two are connected. Anyway. Post. Enjoy. A thought has struck me – as thoughts are wont to do.Motivated by said thought, I re-examined
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A lot of writers unfortunately aren’t really aware of the impact that scene endings can make, and if they are, it’s often in an implicit, intuitive sort of way. A few years ago, I devised this example as a way of teaching scene breaks to students, and some of my writing friends found it helpful.
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The twinny one, Liana Brooks, has an awesome article up on the Critique Circle blog about prepping for NaNoWriMo. Somewhat conveniently, it’s also generally applicable to writing a novel, and is more or less something like the process she and I actually follow when plotting novels. Definitely worth a read, particularly if you’re a writer
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