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Wednesday, October 1
The Freeze-Dried Fiction Contest with Margaret Atwood
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I’m back! My vacation was fabulous, but it’s equally fabulous to be back in my writers cave surrounded by my books and cats and dust ...
Tuesday, September 9
The Royal Order of Adjectives
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Lists are powerful. I don’t know what I’d do without them. Lists of names for characters, lists of locations, lists of interestin...
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Friday, September 5
Keeping A Writing Journal
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“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or 500. [...] [I]f you want to write, you need to keep a...
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Thursday, September 4
Subplots And The Great Swampy Middle
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Today I’d like to talk about something that puzzled me no end when I first began writing: subplots. I’ve been reading Robert McKee’s bo...
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Tuesday, September 2
Guest Post by Chris Pitchford on Writing And Programming
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Today I’m going to do something a bit different. I don’t usually have guest posts, but when I discovered Chris Pitchford was coming out...
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Friday, August 29
Using adverbs in dialogue tags: a matter of style or a sign of timidity?
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Writers are often told not to use adverbs in dialogue tags. For example: “You are dead to me,” he said coldly. Or, worse: “...
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Thursday, August 28
Six Ways To Rekindle Your Enthusiasm For Your Work In Progress
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Enthusiasm. Passion. Inspiration. These words are pale descriptions, gestures toward the drive that causes us to bury ourselves in ...
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Monday, August 25
My Analysis of 16 books: Stephen King is correct, the adverb is not your friend.
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I had a busy weekend. What was I doing, you ask? I was combing through the contents of my digital bookshelf looking at the words, esp...
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Friday, August 22
Descriptivism and Word Lists
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In the next few weeks and months, in addition to looking at the abstract principles of writing I want to spend time examining actual wr...
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Wednesday, August 20
Try-Fail Cycles And The Gap
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As many of you know, I’m reading Robert McKee’s, Story . It seems like each page— certainly each chapter — he looks at an old concept i...
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