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Writing
How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method
booksandpublishing: How to write a novel: Award-winning novelist Randy Ingermanson teaches his wildly popular Snowflake Method for designing and writing a novel.For those embarking on the NaNoWriMo adventure! Good luck!! How To Write A Novel Using The Snowflake Method
Writing history
gehayi: youmightbeamisogynist:naamahdarling:mythosidhe:Although I have to point out that there was a piece of speculative science fiction called The Blazing World published by one Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1666, slightly predating Mary Shelley.This is the thing. Women have been doing awesome shit since there was awesome shit to do, we’ve BEEN THERE, if anyone … Continue reading Writing history
Plot and Theme
I’ve never sat down and thought out the difference between plot and theme. To me, that’s never been important.Len Wein
THE STRUCTURE OF REALLY GOOD NOVELS
dukeofbookingham:It’s just like:Please can Robert Downey Jr explain all of writing for us please?AW
Writers write what they can. The act of writing is a function that becomes effective only if it allows one to express one’s inner self. Italo Calvino, interviewed in the Paris Review in 1983. It’s Calvino’s birthday today! (via kickstarter)
You are free to write about anything—whatever you find necessary to tell your story. You are free to pick material that you are drawn to, remembering that you may be drawn to what is strange or frankly appalling. Do not resist that appeal, no matter how disgraceful or unreasonable it may look. In a talk … Continue reading
Creative Writing | In the dead of night
This short story is very special to me. It came easily, naturally, and effortlessly. I like the difference between the person depicted in the story and the one who actually inspired it. In a dark corridor, in the middle of the night, he was waiting for the right time. The distraction, which would allow, the … Continue reading Creative Writing | In the dead of night
publishersweekly: The Psychological Reason You Can’t Spot Your Own Typos.
In the dead of night
This short story is very special to me. It came easily, naturally, and effortlessly. I like the difference between the person depicted in the story and the one who actually inspired it. In a dark corridor, in the middle of the night, he was waiting for the right time. The distraction, which would allow, the … Continue reading In the dead of night
Worn Out Spines 