The Short and Scrappy Guide to Novel Writing: Part 2
The same caveat applies here as applied to Part 1: This is what has worked for me. Take it or leave it. Disclaimer: This is a much longer post than the last one. What follows could be the bullet points of an introductory class on elementary literary theory for the...
After-Action Report: WorldCon 2019
“. . . within four hours of announcing that I’d engineered sexual violence out of my worldbuilding—that I’d used it in Dragon’s Trail to show the difference in societies but I’ll never use it again—Dragon’s Trail sold every paperback copy that we’d brought.”
Voice Master Class: Everyday Magic
This is an extension of a post I made over at Mythic Scribes in which authors were asked to explain their magic systems in five bullet points. This was fun, in no small part because with the increased role of magic in, well, The New Magic, some readers have been...
On Craft: Words are Not Enough
Written English is a different language from spoken English.
