Archive for Writing
Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions.
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and...
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's...
Something I see quite often in both submissions and published fiction (including movies) is plots that hinge on people taking...
I'm still not awake enough to post a more substantive entry, but as I was on my way to bed...
I've had occasion recently to see a couple of authors' word-processor documents, and I've noticed that some authors are using...
I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,...
A couple of notes on fanfic: Kathleen on Why fanfic? And why Final Fantasy fanfic in particular? First chapter of...
Peter S. Beagle will be reading tonight in San Francisco, at the Make-Out Room, as part of Charlie Anders's "Writers...
About halfway through reading the Slate article "Star Wars: Episodes I-VI: The greatest postmodern art film ever," by Aidan Wasley,...
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're...
This occurred to me, more or less irrelevantly, while I was reading a story in Asimov's recently: Fiction is often...