Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Being sick resets one’s brain to the basics. In three brief points, lets discuss some basics of good writing. We’ll look at story structure, rules for writing, and audience analysis.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Audience Analysis, Chicago Manual of Style, Christian fantasy, Colors of Deception, Demons of Saltmarch, Fantasy, Grammar Rules, KISS, Narrative Structure, Storytelling, WILAWriTWe, Writing Rules
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Mr. Stephen King and Mr. Peter Straub, that is. These two gentlemen co-wrote a couple books, if you didn’t know. And I’m currently enjoying the second of that couple most muchly, yup. The first, The Talisman, I read years and years ago. So, before I started this new read, I hied myself to my local [...]
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Also tagged Active and Passive Voice, Adverbs, Amazon, Black House, Descriptive Language, Detective mystery, Fantasy, Homer, Jack Sawyer, Joshua Unruh, Mythology, Narrative and Exposition, Peter Straub, Point of View, Sci-fi, The Talisman, Thriller, WILAWriTWe
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
I just finished a jolly good, pell-pell, crazed romp through November, wot wot. Somehow, I’ve emerged victorious from the jumble of letter, words, strikethroughs, wordcounts, agonized screams, cups of too-strong coffee, and zombie-induced mayhem. NaNoWriMo 2010 is over…
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’m a quitter. I’ll admit it. I’ve decided that I don’t have time to finish books I’m not enjoying. Over the last month, I have picked up and almost immediately set down again two novels in particular…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Captain Hook, Character Development, Mr. Spock, On Writing -- A Memoir of the Craft, Reading, Star Trek, Unstressed Syllables, WILAWriTWe, Worldbuilding, Writing Rules
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
I’ve just returned home from a celebration honoring a guy you might have heard about before. His name is Aaron Pogue, and he is a published author…
