Category: Creative Writing
On Eating Strawberries
[note: I wrote this years ago as an experiment. I've posted this once before, but it was long before any of you were visiting. Oh, and notice my progress editing Oasis. You may need to hit reload to update the little graph. Oh, yeah, and happy Halloween everybody.] On Eating Strawberries by Bryce Beattie In [...]
Creating Characters
Its been a while, so I thought it was about time I put up something else about writing. I went and assembled another report from a series of articles in Randy Ingermanson’s Advanced Fiction Writing e-zine. This one is called “Creating Characters.” He gives some great ideas on how to make you characters not only [...]
Writing Podcasts
Recently I started looking around for podcasts geared toward writers and writing. Here’s a few: Creative Writing Podcast @ American Writers – Some great audio essays on topics important to fiction writers. Holly Lisle On Writing – She’s got some great ideas, but unfortunately she seems to have stopped doing these. However, there are five [...]
Literary vs Commercial Fiction
When discussing literary fiction and “commercial” fiction, I’ve often read that they are two different schools of thought. Maybe that’s because in today’s world, we are trained to divide any concept into two and then pick a side. I don’t think you have to choose one or the other. Stephen King once wrote an article [...]
Why Do I Write?
Randy Ingermanson finally got his Advanced fiction writing blog up and running. In his first post, he asked “What Drives You To Write Fiction?” For me, the stories themselves drive me to write. It’s kind of like they take a life of their own once I start writing something. Once I’ve started it, the story [...]
Some writing resourses.
Here are a couple of things that have helped my writing recently: The Snowflake Method – This is pretty much the way I write now, because it’s how I think. It is geared for writing novels, but the concepts can be used for many things. Writing the Perfect Scene – A good article on writing [...]
This is the beginning of something special, or at least something.
This will be a place for me to blog about storytelling, writing, pulp stories, and like everyone else in the blog world, anything I feel like. Just to start things off, here's a little essay I wrote a while ago. It's based on a conversation I had with a friend, after which she asked me, [...]
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