The next tip from my list of Writing Tips is: Romantic Tension: To make a character seem attractive to another character (at least to women) list a character trait of character A and an emotional reaction to this trait from character B). (example: she had an air of mystery that intrigued him. Or, her…
I just got a note from LiveJournal that someone gave me the gift of two months of LJ. I have no idea what this means or who did this…but if you–the mysterious giver–are reading this, I’d like to say: Thank you!!!!!
Measurements by example: Tall as a man, rather than six feet high, where applicable. Hmm. I have promised to write a post on each of my on each of my Writing Tips. Not sure I have a whole lot to say about this one, though. It is pretty straightforward. This idea was suggested by…
I felt that the school of writing represented by the Society for the Redemption of Adverbs needed a name. After all, thanks to Mosellegreen, our opposition has a name: The Heming Way. So…we are now the Natural Speech School…because real people use adverbs in real speech. We even have an anthem, from which we get our…
‘Nuff said.
Last night, in my sleep, I coined the new word of “Twitternatural.” Being that it was a dream, I do not know if this meant “It’s natural” or “Preternatural.” Weird, since I am not a Twitterer (Twitterite?)…but funny.
Hey folks! Welcome fellow writer Jordan McCollum and her wonderful insights about that wonderful tool of the suspence writer, The MacGuffin: The presence of suspense is . . . a feat and shows promise, since it indicates that the writer is writing more for the reader than for himself. (Noah Lukeman, The Plot Thickens, p.…
click here to see more about the book on the Benbella website Recently the editors for Benbella’s Smart Pop line of essays about cultural pop topics published their pick of favorite essays. Editor Leah Wilson picked my essay as one of her top three. This was for my essay: Dating the Monsters in the book Ardeur,…
Hey folks, a guest blog from fellow writer Benjamin Tate, whose new book is about to hit the shelves. In it he discusses, among other things, one of my favorite Writing Tips: how all stories need two ideas before they come alive. click on the picture to see the book at Banres & Nobles.com Thanks for having…
Our friend Evil Dave is visiting. (He’s not really evil. Actually, he’s very nice. But that’s what people call him.) From time to time, he jokingly runs a roleplaying game called "the Rolling Down a Hill Game" where one’s character rolls down a hill. That’s all that ever happens in this particular game. Some years…