Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tweet No, not Conan O’Brien. We’re talking somebody a bit less civilized than that (although, I suppose that some of you might find this debatable). Today, my dear inklings, we’re talking Conan the Barbarian, who is brought to you by the letter J. Why the letter J? Because if my friend and fellow writer Josh […]
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I’ve spent the last few days getting scared out of my wits by a wholly unexpected source: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Fear, Inspirations, Murder Mystery, Muse, Narrative and Exposition, Plot, Point of View, Raymond E. Feist, Realism, Suspense, Ten Little Indians, The Human Condition
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Characters are like the paint samples of the world. Some of them are vivid. Some are pale. A select few are restful and pleasant to the reader’s eye the moment they step onto the page. Yet others look icky, no matter what light we cast them in. But they all need molding and clarifying, and that’s where the hard work starts…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Athena, Character, Creative Writing, Julie Velez, Paint, Rewriting, Storytelling, Trish Pogue, WILAWriTWe, Zeus
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
If you peruse the articles in which Aaron and I reference Stephenie Meyer, you might pick up on the fact that neither of us are necessarily favorably disposed toward her writing. Neither of us, however, has gone into much detail on the basis of our opinion. I, for my part, am about to change that.
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Also tagged Bella Swan, Breaking Dawn, Dialogue Tags, Edward Cullen, Sentence Fragments, Star Trek, Stephenie Meyer, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, The Writing Life, Twilight, Vampires, WILAWriTWe, Worldbuilding
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
I’m a quitter. I’ll admit it. I’ve decided that I don’t have time to finish books I’m not enjoying. Over the last month, I have picked up and almost immediately set down again two novels in particular…
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Also tagged Aaron Pogue, Captain Hook, Mr. Spock, On Writing -- A Memoir of the Craft, Reading, Star Trek, Stephen King, Unstressed Syllables, WILAWriTWe, Worldbuilding, Writing Rules
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Watch them when they don’t know you’re watching.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Zombie stories aren’t about scary grossness — they’re about characters. The survivors and how they overcome or succumb to hardship: that is what zombie stories are about. And that, gentle readers, is what each of our stories should be about, no matter what our chosen genre…
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Also tagged Alan Dean Foster, Ancient Egyptian poetry, Anne McCaffrey, Anne Rice, Ben Hur, Caroline B. Cooney, Character, Christopher Pike, Cynthia Voigt, Dean Koontz, Genre fiction, John Saul, Joy Wilt Berry, Literary fiction, Lois Lowry, Maz Brooks, Michael Crichton, Pern, Pip and Flinx, Point Horror, R. L. Stine, Richie Tankersley Cusick, Robin Cook, Shakespeare, Stephen King, Sunfire Romance, WILAWriTWe, World War Z, Zombies
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