Category: writing tips
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Friday’s Findings: The Recipe for Interiority
There’s this new term I’ve come across in the fiction craft world: interiority. I had never heard of it until last year when I took Mary Kole’s online class called Crafting Dynamic Characters. Great class. As far as using it as a writing craft term, I don’t know who coined interiority, but Kole built her…
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Writing Garbage
“When you’re stuck, and sure you’ve written absolute garbage, force yourself to finish and THEN decide to fix or scrap it – or you will never know if you can.” – Jodi Picoult Photo by Anna Shvets: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-white-and-green-shirt-holding-yellow-plastic-bag-3746342/
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Friday’s Findings: The Moon Is Shining
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” -Anton Chekhov Friday’s Findings: The Best Writing Advice from Successful Authors (jennamoreci.com) Human-Centered Book Marketing With Dan Blank | The Creative Penn Avoid, Persevere, Endure, Fight: 4 Goals for Unforgettable Opening Scenes | Jane Friedman How to Improve Your…
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Friday’s Findings: Sentence Purpose
“Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.” – Kurt Vonnegut Friday’s Findings: How to Choose Story Settings: The 4 Basic Types of Setting – Helping Writers Become Authors One of the Things I’ve Learned About Writing (goinswriter.com) How to Deliver Backstory Without Confusing the Reader | Jane…
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Some Books on Writing Craft
A book on fiction writing is ideal because you’re getting a course in writing at your fingertips. You can read or listen to the book at your own convenience. And best of all, you don’t have to take a final. Unless finishing your story is the final. Anyway, here are some books on the writing…
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Friday’s Findings: The Exact Detail
“In all genres, I wait in ambush for the exact, perfect, telling detail, the thing that makes the scene or line come alive.” —Lauren Groff Friday’s Findings: Antagonistic Obstacles – Does Your Story Really Need Them? (beemgee.com) Self-Publishing Steps You Might Not Know About (jennamoreci.com) Facing Fears In Writing And Life With Rachael Herron (thecreativepenn.com)…
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Friday’s Findings: You’re Allowed to Steal
“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.” – James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing. Austin Kleon talks about this in detail in his book, Steal Like an Artist. “If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and…
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Friday’s Findings: Were You Meant to Be An Author?
“Finish the novel. Then write another one. And then, write another one … If you give up after your first book, you were never meant to be an author.” – Ted Dekker Writing Blog Highlights: 5 Ways to Start a Story: Choosing a Bold Beginning | Now Novel 13 Limiting Beliefs That Hold Writers Back…
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Friday’s Findings: A Writer’s Notebook
“Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.” -Will Self Writing Blog Highlights: Creating Wow Power in Your First Paragraph! (writersinthestormblog.com) Four Must-Haves in the First Two Paragraphs of Every Chapter or Scene…
