Sci-Fi For Everyone: Four Tricks to Write Sci-Fi Anyone Will Read
As a multi-genre writer who writes sci-fi, I need to figure out how to retain my core audience while writing…
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Writing as Sacrifice
A proper way of thinking about writing is that it is equivalent to sacrifice. I’ve written about this before, though…
Better Writing With Heuristics 2: SCENE
SCENE is an acronym-based heuristic I use when I assess my fiction writing and when I look at others’ writing.…
The Fine Art of Revision Preparation
Writing is a multi-step process. A first draft is rarely of sufficient quality to publish, but the art of getting…
Should You Use Writing Software to Edit?
In some of my MFA courses, I’ve brought up the fact that I use software to edit and gotten a…
NaNoWriMo 2020 Postmortem: What Did I Learn?
I successfully completed NaNoWriMo. Though the novel I was working on for it has two connecting bits left to write,…
NaNoWriMo Week 4: Planning or Pantsing
I have now written one complete novel and nine-tenths of another. For my first novel, I went through a robust…
Writing Bold Dialogue
Dialogue is a challenging part of the writing process. There are complete books written on good dialogue, and many chapters…
Bridging Craft and Practice
I am almost 30,000 words into my NaNoWriMo novel. One lesson I learned about my writing is that rushed writing…
Getting the Novel Done (After Writing It)
Over the weekend, I finished the rough draft of my first novel and immediately started working on my second novel.…