Archive for Writing
Big Reveals and Surprise Twist Endings
Don’t tell your audience what they know or feel
On deafness and quietness
Jim’s visit + roundsing
On character obstacles
Repeated lines
Dream response
Productivity
I’m in Santa Fe for a few days. Mary Anne is here for a Wild Cards authors gathering, and I’m...
On the difficulty of recognizing one’s own biases
Another lesson for me on the difficulty of seeing outside your own cultural context: In Delany's City of a Thousand...
Trope: The Singular Woman
I seem to be focused on tropes today. I just read a 1972 science fiction story, by a male author,...
Truth-tellers in sf
I encounter this idea regularly in stories, both submissions and published: A character is bound (by a vow, by brain...