Tag: craft

My dialogue is so alive and real, it has self esteem issues

Make your dialogue real by writing it exactly like a conversation, capturing the boring, repetitive, and inane. Don’t let exposition and long paragraphs of description get all the …

Harry Potter or Blade Runner, Crazy Codpieces Take Writing to Another Level

What do Harry Potter and Blade Runner have in common?

JK Rowling wrote seven long-winded Harry Potter novels that were Stephen King long and featured a pedestrian writing …

My credo, divorced from reality:
Don’t brag about your lightning fiction writing pace,
for Slow and Steady won the fiction publishing race.

I recently read an online article on “Book Writing Tips to Speed Write Your Book for Maximum …

How Do You Astrally Project to a Fiction Writer’s Conference?
Cotton Underwear is the Key.

In order to complete my being publishable check list, I had planned to attend the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s Fiction Writer’s Conference on Saturday, …

I have read stories that have started off rather badly in my opinion with an extended physical description of the main character. In some cases, every new character is introduced with an extended physical description. Of course, these descriptions include …

Way back when I was more earnestly learning the craft of writing, I was reading through several different books on writing fiction. Almost immediately, I felt that I was reading the same book over and over again. It was if …