One of the writing terms that I’ve been hearing a lot lately is “the inciting incident,” which has become steadily more common over the past thirty years or so. Like a lot of the analytical approaches to writing, I think it is much to easy to get
Read more →Revising is one of those things that some writers love and others hate. There are various reasons for this. Writers who love it are usually the ones that find fixing things easier than making them up. Writers who hate it come in a lot of varieties: the
Read more →In the writing field, people who “just sit down and write” are named pantsers (as in, writing by the seat of their pants), in contrast to planners, who supposedly write bucketfuls of notes beforehand. Reality, in my experience, is a bit different. First off, in my experience
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