- Start with an event, a cause. This cause will result in an incident, but don’t decide on the incident yet. Continue reading “Effects to Cause”
Category: Thoughts about Writing
bookmark_borderTo help you edit, reverse your sentence order
Here’s how to make your computer help you find grammar and line editing problems. Awkward phrases, missing words, repeated words in close proximity, and repeated sentence length will be much more obvious and easier to identify to fix.
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bookmark_borderOpen Your Story at the Start of the Ending
“Begin at the start of the ending” is a writing aphorism. Open your story there and you set yourself up to easily carry through without losing the reader’s attention. Continue reading “Open Your Story at the Start of the Ending”
bookmark_borderDifferences between reality and fiction
Writing a story is not the same as experiencing reality.
For one thing, fiction is more interesting than 99% of most people’s reality.
bookmark_borderGoldberg Variations
Long ago I wrote a paper for a music grad class comparing the two Glenn Gould recordings of the Goldberg Variations, written by J. S Bach. Nowadays I listen to the 1981 release once in a while through a sleep app on my phone.
bookmark_borderAntihero: The Ambiguous Protagonist?
I’ve long been confused by the definition of “antihero”. My daughter uses the term to describe characters in movies but I’m never quite sure what she means.
bookmark_borderWriting Review: The Host, by Stephenie Meyer, and thoughts on dialog and action tags
I’ve only read a few chapters into The Host
bookmark_borderThe Writing Process
I thought it might be worthwhile to summarize my writing process. This is based on the two most recent stories but the process has been similar for many years. Continue reading “The Writing Process”
bookmark_borderReading Across Genres
I like to read across genres.
Some years back I discovered Google’s list of best books of 2012 and I read them without paying attention to what the title might hint, reserving judgement as long as I could. The 2013 list wasn’t as good and that was the last I saw. Since then I haven’t found a reliable way of finding material across genres worth looking at.
