Production vs. Product
... New York City in 1905, and she talks a bit about the worldbuilding and the difficulties faced by her vaudeville-magician protagonist ...
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Getting Started
... Alexandria that the elves rescued when they left the human world,” then the next step in developing your story is likely to be working ...
Search again:Did You Really Want To Go Full-Time?
... over again the next day. When you have all the time in the world to write, it gets really easy to be distracted or procrastinate. It also ...
Search again:Scene Choreography
... can’t just vanish (unless of course this is the sort of world that has teleportation magic or technology, but that, too, should be ...
Search again:Making Art
... at the wrong thing. If what art does is to convey a worldview, evoke an emotion, present a vision, or say something important, then ... won’t get one anywhere unless and until they have a worldview they want to convey, an emotion they want to evoke, a vision they ...
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... obvious stakes – the asteroid is going to destroy the world, the protagonist is going to make either his boss or his wife unhappy – ...
Search again:Grids and Trees
... and acknowledges only three subgenres for Fantasy (real world, whether contemporary or historical; invented magical world; and science fiction... I am not kidding here). Coyne is an editor, and ...
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... into except maybe lawyers). There is no paying job in this world for which every single aspect of it is fun. I can say this with some ...
Search again:Conveying information
... little” traps – either they are so in love with their world and/or characters that their stories bog down in endless details (which, ... of being obvious, but because they know their characters, world, and plot so enormously well that they not only forget to hang the ...
Search again:Just Don’t
... detective’s name to “Indiana,” the time period to “World War II,” and the murder motive to “murderer wants map” and end up ...
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