Tag Archive | craft of writing
A Little Effort Today Can Lead to Big Results a Year from Now
Originally posted on Live to Write – Write to Live:
If you’re struggling with writing – find yourself unable to get any creative writing done – you should know that even the smallest effort you make to move forward today can reap noticeable results a year from now. If you started writing 5 minutes a…
A short story is a fiendish device: Sci Fi writer Michael Swanwick — Quotes for Writers (and People who like Quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A short story…can be held in the mind all in one piece. It’s less like a building than a fiendish device. Every bit of it must be cunningly made and crafted to fit together perfectly and without waste so it can perform its task with absolute precision. That purpose…
Introducing the characters from my novel “Conditions”, Post 3: Elaine
Originally posted on writerchristophfischer:
Elaine is a motherly figure and a close friend to Charles. A haidresser, a psychic and a caring giver, she attracts fragile and needy people and is always happy to help: be that her sister who has ME, her neighbour with the broken leg and of course, Charles. We never learn…
A question for the authors out there
Originally posted on readful things blog:
Recently I was discussing the writing process at a small conference in Reno, Nevada. One of the people I was talking to was saying she had trouble figuring out if her idea was her own or if it had been done before. I asked her if she reads within…
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