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I have posted here before about worldbuilding, and no doubt I will again. Only a month or so ago, Benjamin Tate gave us an excellent guest post on the subject. But I have been thinking about worldbuilding in a new way since beginning work on the Thieftaker books, which are my first set in a [...]
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This is the second or third time I’ve started today’s post. Hopefully this one will take…. I have snippets of ideas for today, but nothing that seems willing to cohere into a full post. So it looks like you’re going to get snippets.
Snippet 1: I started today by writing about ritual. My girls both start [...]
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The results of our first Magical Words poll indicated that many of you are interested in posts about (among other things) character development and plotting. So I thought that today I would take on plotting, at least in a general way. I have no doubt that my MW colleagues will have much to add, either [...]
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Hi, all. I’m back, and wanted to take care of a couple of quick items before I get to today’s post. First of all, thanks to all of you for the great comments on my posts while I was away on vacation. I’ve read through all of them — y’all have some excellent dreams for [...]
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(Please note that once again I’ll be away from my computer and won’t be able to respond to comments. I’ll trust my fellow MWers to comment on my behalf.)
I was thinking the other day that in half my posts here at MW, I wax rhapsodic about how much I love my job and [...]
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(Please note that I’ll be away from my computer and won’t be able to respond to comments. I’ll trust my fellow MWers to comment on my behalf.)
The other day I gave a talk at a local book fair. The talk was on point of view and also touched on character, voice, narrative, [...]