Tag Archives: fiction
NaNoWrimo? Advice Sought.
I’d like to hear your thoughts on a decision I need to make soon. November, as many of you know, is National Novel Writing Month. They call it NaNoWrimo for short. As the name suggests the point is to start writing a novel on November 1, and have at least a 50,000 word rough draft …
Ty’s Big Old Box O’ Writing
Over the weekend I had to empty my bedroom closet so my brother-in-law could get in there and fix the hinges on the door. (As of this writing, I have yet to put all that crap back, but that’s another matter.) Among the temporarily relocated objects were a series of lidded plastic storage bins. Each …
Don’t Struggle With Every Word.
I take pride in my writing. Being a writer, I have to. I’m not about to have my name on lazy trash. I grant you, any given piece of writing may not be a masterpiece from within my opus, but not everything I write is intended to be. Still, I believe my quality control is …
Fiction Is Stranger than Truth?
Is fiction really that much more dramatic or convenient than real life? That is the consensus and I can’t deny that at first blush it makes sense to say so. After all, how often do we find our lives, or even our day unfolding in such a linear, logical, dramatic manner as found in a …
Feeling Conflicted
A lot is said about the importance of conflict in fiction. (Sometimes it’s stressed even in the non-fiction work I write, but that’s another post.) Without conflict, so goes the admonition, there is no story. Or at least no story that anybody will read. Therefore, (the conventional advice continues), an author must put their characters …
Ty Unglebower 