A. N. George

Why you should read shitty writing.

Great writing can be a little too good.

You learn in the editing

On good days writing a great scene is effortless. Other times it’s like pulling ugly knives out of your urethra. Alas, neither of these helps you become a better writer.

Dark – Anchoring an Audience

Dark: an off-beat mystery show, with a huge cast and a story spanning over a hundred years. How does it keep an audience?

Tier 2 – Prose

How you describe a room or a character is vital. The moment to moment descriptions of objects, surroundings, sounds, smells. These are the brush by which you paint your world

Grab your reader by the collar

How am I gonna put the book down after reading that?

Fear

“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”
Ralph Keyes

Is your exposition good or bad?

What if I gave you a maxim you could use to identify good exposition?
A sentence that’d immediately tell you if your exposition is working or not…

In every writer there are two people. The creator and the critiquer. Both are vital. The creator has the free-spirited abandon of a five-year-old who’s just discovered mixing colours and has been given gallons of paint. When the creator is in control it feels amazing, the words are flowing and you’re tip tap tapping awayContinue reading “What causes writer’s block?”

Shaun of the Dead – Mastery of Metaphors.

A quick look at the brilliant use of metaphor in a comedy classic

Last of Us 2 – Worst twist ever?

Has a game ever made you feel so anxious you had to turn your console off? At one point playing The Last of Us 2 did that. Which is amazing, as on a moment-by-moment level it is truly a great game. Scenes are well written, and the atmosphere is overflowing with dread. But that’s notContinue reading “Last of Us 2 – Worst twist ever?”