Last week, Deep Lurker asked whether I still hate writing transitions. The answer is a qualified yes – qualified, because the question made me realize that this is one more place where writing terminology covers at least two kinds of thing, and they’re very different. Transition is
Read more →Most of my regular readers seem to have realized that the only “writing rules” I believe in are the ones that involve grammar, spelling, and punctuation – and that even those are flexible, if the writer needs to play with them to get a particular effect in
Read more →If you’ve read the last couple of blog posts about my current WIP, you may have noticed that the end of the story started off as “Kayla confronts the Archmage. Kayla wins. Everybody celebrates.” This is actually more specific than the end of my first-stage outline normally
Read more →This is the slightly belated Open Mic Day that would have happened last week if I hadn’t had a software malfunction that messed up the notification. I think that is sorted out now, so the next one will be six weeks after this. So, talk amongst yourselves
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