MICE, Fractals and Budgets
Following Mary Robinette Kowal’s guest lecture for Sanderson’s 2020 course, we started looking at Word Budgets. Let’s go further with […]
Posts on the craft of writing
Following Mary Robinette Kowal’s guest lecture for Sanderson’s 2020 course, we started looking at Word Budgets. Let’s go further with […]
If history is stuff that happened, and fantasy is stuff somebody made up, then what’s historical fiction? History, historical fiction
It’s said that writers fall into two types: the plotter versus the ‘pantser,’ more politely described as a ‘discovery writer.’
Do you sit in front of the TV or a book and admire the character arcs, pacing and plotting? Just
Master of short stories Mary Robinette Kowal delivered a guest lecture for Sanderson’s 2020 course which raised the interesting question:
While I don’t use Fictionary‘s software tool itself, I’ve learned to construct the grandmother of spreadsheets to track their editing
Writing to Market means writing types of books that are known to sell well. For an author that means finding
About this time last year, I received the fantasy fiction challenge during an online discussion about self publishing and the
What I call Tolkein’s Legacy of the Rings doesn’t kick-start the fantasy genre. It originates in the roots of story
‘Starting the story in the middle’: that’s the Latin term in medias res. The Greek playwrights understood it well. Don’t