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Feeling the Romance and Keeping it Real
There’s a standard formula for romantic stories. Boy meets girl. They fall in love but pretend they don’t even notice each other. Finally, they declare […]
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Pulling Us Into Your World
The idea for this episode actually came from a question someone posed on a writer’s board. How do you write short descriptions that still give […]
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3 Stupid (or Not So Stupid) Story Mistakes
It seems like so long ago that I was just learning about stories. I’d been writing non-fiction for many years, but when I tried to […]
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The Telling of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the most endearing pieces of classic literature. Of the many literary novels extant, this is […]
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How to Create Powerful, Sympathetic Characters
Creating sympathetic characters does not need to be mysterious. This week we’ll look a couple of unlikely sympathetic characters. And I’ll give you an easy, […]
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The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem (Review)
The Investigation is a novel about strange occurences. Dead bodies start moving, by themselves. At first, it’s hardly noticeable. A corpse moves from its back […]
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Internal and External Conflicts
Stories use two types of conflict: internal and external. Internal conflicts are resolved by something changing inside the character, whereas external conflicts are resolved in the world around outside the character. When these two work together, the result can be dazzling. And when they don’t, the result can be devastating.
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Three Things to Make Your Audience Adore You
This is a list of opinions. My top three will be different from yours. But these three are important to me, and they are all […]
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IFComp 2005
This week, we enter the world of interactive fiction, and the possibilities it presents, by way of IFComp 2005. In this episode, we look at […]
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The Alchera Project
This week, we’ll look at a few entries from Alchera Project #39, from November 2005.
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