Waning Enthusiasm and Writing Grumbles
Sometimes everything just goes your way – characters chat like they’re real, plot points slide into place like lubed puzzle pieces, backstory surfaces subtley and effortlessley – oh who am I kidding! It’s hell all the time! Here are a couple of things that are worrying me this week. Read more…
The law of diminishing enthusiasm
Has what you’re writing ever bored you? It seems to me if you don’t catch an idea at inception, it begins to go off. Here’s what happened to me recently. Read more…
Write What You Know – The Quest For Authenticity
“Write what you know”. Is it merely a dangerous idea, or could there be something genuinely useful in this controversial writerly advice? Read more…
Write what you know – A Dangerous Idea
In our continued effort to improve our writing, we can be very sensitive to the advice of others. Here’s a reason not to follow so-called “common knowledge” advice about what is a very personal craft. Read more…
Crafting an Epic – Part Four: The End..?
It’s never a bad time to start thinknig about your ending for your epic creation. But how do you go about it? Discuss! Read more…
Writers Write – Seeing the Cliché Through New Eyes
Another one of those writing maxims and possibly the most obvious, and self-descriptive one of all. So what could I possibly have to say about the advice that “writers write”? Read more…
Crafting an Epic – Part 3
Getting stuck sucks, but when you’re working on something this big, you’re bound to run aground at least once. Here’s some ways of approaching that slow grind. Read more…
4 More Critiquing Tips
Have you enjoyed my recent bout of critiquing posts? Were you interested to know why you should join a critiquing group? Did you lap up my tips on how to critique? Do you want more? MOOORE?
Oh, all right then. Read more…
How to Critique
I recently wrote about my adventures with critiquing and what it does for me, so it seems only right I continue this with a post on what makes a good critique. Read more…
Crafting an Epic – Part Two
Wherein we speak of motivation, doubt, and fitting new material into the old. Read more…