Found this in a batch of older questions: When one conveys descriptions, actions, or background information through dialogue, does it count as showing or telling? The short answer is, the writer is “showing” two characters in conversation. People in conversations are of course “telling” each other things;
Read more →By coincidence, this open mic arrives on Thanksgiving week (in the U.S.), which means I get to slave over a hot stove for the next two days instead of over a hot keyboard! Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!
Read more →I’m out of questions for the time being, so we’re back to my random musings on writing in general. Back when I was a beginning writer, I had a horror of “wasting writing time” by writing stuff that wasn’t actual pay copy. If it wasn’t intended to
Read more →As for requests: Elevator pitches, are there different varieties? (Because I’ve heard them described as both one-sentence set-up only, and as three-sentence complete but extremely abridged plot summaries.) –Deep Lurker My first reaction is that you’re over-thinking this. An elevator pitch doesn’t have rules or even a
Read more →When you have a weird question (e.g. “If someone gained encyclopaedic knowledge of an advanced civilization, how could they improve technology in a medieval fantasy world?”), how do you research it? .–Alpakka Researching for fiction depends on what the writer needs to know. That sounds really obvious,
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