There’s a flow to writing. For most of us, it takes a few minutes to truly get into our writing state. A few minutes before the words come easily. With enough practice it gets a little quicker to achieve this flow, but for most of us mortals, it takes a few minutes to get the […]
During Part 1 of this series, we touched briefly on how choosing a viewpoint character and setting can drastically change the type of story or genre that we’re telling. Also, now might be a good time to brush up on Genre Expectations, if you haven’t read that one. We’re going to continue this tangent today […]
I recently finished Kurt Vonnegut’s writing book Pity the Reader. In it, Suzanne McConnell (a former student of Vonnegut’s) compiles various pieces of advice and tidbits from the master. I might do a more in depth review of the book (which, in short, was great), but I was struck by the section, Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Moe or Choice. […]
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