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One Thing Authors Shouldn’t Leave Out of A Story’s “Big Moment”
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Just because a character is acting quickly, or must REact, doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a real motivation for the choice she makes. Today’s post is about the big moments in fiction–the action-packed, “everything is changing because of what is happening” moments–and about one thing in…
AUTHORS: Four Reasons We Sometimes Write (Too) Slowly
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
We authors love to write: and sometimes we write slowly. Sometimes that’s intentional, part of our personal process. Other times, it’s indicative of obstacles getting the best of us. In exciting news, I have begun to balance preparing the Herezoth Trilogy’s second edition for an Autumn…
Narration vs Dialogue: A Clear-Cut Distinction?
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Narration versus dialogue in fiction: are they as diametrically opposed as they sometimes seem? In what ways do they overlap? I’ve been speaking lately about how our unique styles as authors and our approaches to creative writing often boil down to where we lie upon a…
AUTHORS: Is “Showing” versus “Telling” Truly Either-Or?
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
Today I am continuing a series of post about opposites in fiction that writers often consider to be cases of “either-or” but in reality may be seen to be the ends of a spectrum instead. By the very nature of saying that a spectrum exists, there…
Viewing Creative Writing Choices as a Spectrum, Rather Than “Either-Or”
Originally posted on Creative Writing with the Crimson League:
When we talk about writing, there is so much discussion about “This” versus “That.” Today I wanted to get a discussion started about how faulty and how limiting that kind of thought is. Art is self-expression. Writing is art. And while any kind of art will…
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