reading
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Plot or character?
When I first started writing, I came across the phrase “character-driven” in several different books on craft and in editorial ads. I saw it in descriptions for what editors were […]
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Why the hell am I crying?
I burst into tears the other day at a friend’s funeral. This might not seem so odd. And indeed, I had been teary-eyed off and on through the service and […]
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Stealing shit.
(This post wound up getting pretty long, I guess I have more to say about world-building than I thought! Buckle up!) In a previous post, I mentioned that I totally […]
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Ancient humans.
I find ancient history really, really interesting. I don’t know why. I guess I just find it so unlikely that creatures like humans would just walk out of the forest […]
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Trigger warnings.
I’ve always felt that trigger warnings on stories are unhelpful, maybe intended to be sensitive by people who don’t really know how to be sensitive or who might need it. […]
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A slight shift.
I haven’t been keeping up with this blog very faithfully, and sometimes I feel a little guilty about that and sometimes I don’t care. It’s mostly for me, anyway, with […]
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