Archive for August, 2007
Carnival of Storytelling #6
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Now, the most interesting posts in the blogosphere about telling stories…
The Real 7 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
Getting caught up on my RSS feeds, I saw Brian Clark’s 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer. He didn’t make up this advice. It has been repeated far and wide. But it’s absolutely wrong.
The advice is basically, if you want become a better writer, you should write, write some more, keep writing and writing [...]
When to Use Character Quirks
I’ve read plenty of writing advice to improve your fictional characters using quirks, or hooks, or tags. That is, make the character more interesting by having her play with her hair, jiggle her keys, overuse a catch-phrase, or the like. These quirks are usually just lumped together with other character traits, but I think there’s [...]