We all like writing. So why, when I sit down to write, do I suddenly have 100 great reasons not to?
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Why you should read shitty writing.
Great writing can be a little too good.
Cliché: A writer’s guilty pleasure
Sometimes, in the dark of night, I’ll sneak downstairs. And opening the fridge in the kitchen, I’ll find my secret treasure. A cliché.
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?
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…
What causes writer’s block?
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?”
Soft Sci-Fi is Just Fantasy – and That’s a Good Thing
Space wizards and rocket scientists. You might think the two shouldn’t overlap. But whether you’re banishing a demon, or escaping a star going supernova, good writing is good writing.
Shaun of the Dead – Mastery of Metaphors.
A quick look at the brilliant use of metaphor in a comedy classic
Character and Theme: A look at Gideon the Ninth
I often considered theme an afterthought within a story, preferring instead to focus on plot and character. Here’s why I was wrong.
The Fellowship Of Ink 