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Archive for the Writing Category

Site maintenance week

On September 11, 2019   /   Writing  
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Looking for solutions

On September 4, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: fixes, plot, problems, process
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Just Don’t

On August 28, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: mistakes, plot
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Which Story, Which Hero

On August 21, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: characters, distractions, hero, subplots
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Action Scenes, or, Some Ninjas Came in the Window

On August 14, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: action, scenes
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One reason Characters are a pain

On August 7, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: characters, villains
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Analysis vs. Intuition

On July 31, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: intuition, process
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Complicated Systems (Like Writing)

On July 24, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: Da Rulez, methods, process
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Why this question annoys me

On July 17, 2019   /   Writing  
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Writers with Hammers

On July 10, 2019   /   Writing  
Tags: metaphor, tools
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Recent Posts

  • About the Story’s Setting
  • Things revelations do in stories
  • Open Mic for July!
  • What Is an Inciting Incident?
  • Figuring out how to revise

Books

  • ThirteenthChild
    Thirteenth Child
    Book One covers Eff’s childhood, from the age of five (when her parents...
  • GreatBarrier
    Across the Great Barrier
    Eff is back in Mill City, while her powerful twin Lan and her...
  • FarWest
    The Far West
    The discoveries that Eff and her friends made out in settlement territory didn’t...

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