Faith Hunter
It’s one of those days when RL (real life) is getting in the way ofany kind of writing, even this blog. Between other stuff (which could go in caps, like OTHER STUFF) a co-worker fell at work and I have been pulling the graveyard shift. Ugh-ick. So I thought it might be smart to build [...]
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     | I just caught a few minutes of one of my favorite early-season Smallville episodes, the one where Lex is split into Evil Lex and Good Lex, and Evil Lex utters the line, “You were right all along, Mr Kent. I am the villain of the piece.” (Actually, he says “story”, but he should have said [...] “I wonder if its possible, to write a ripping good yarn with a hero, or heroine, who was ordinary in every way.” A reader emailed and asked me this question a few days ago. It’s a good question. Why do fantasy novels tend to be about unusually skilled people in extraordinary circumstances? Why [...] Last week, I shared with readers a vision of the manic phase that hits me during the pre-creative process of writing. The *I have an idea, now what?* phase. A lot has happened since then in the creative process. The idea found a direction and an outlet in a 4 page, single spaced outline, and [...] (By request!) In my opinion, nonfiction writing is writing about facts, while fiction writing is about feelings about facts. So while we are writing fiction dialogue, the order is pretty much fact, feeling, fact, feeling, fact, etc, to convey information and emotional reactions to the changing, evolving facts. Never give only fact. Never give only feeling. [...] I’m still on vacation and so am writing this from the road. In part, my travels have taken me back to New York, and more specifically, to the small town north of the city where I grew up. I’ve seen my old schools, the part of town along the coast where I used to hang [...] | This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our Many companies provide barcode readers that you can install on your mobile, and all of the following are compatible with this format: | ||
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