Tag Archives: fiction
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 …
The Name Game
In 90% of the cases, I don’t stress much about the names of characters in my fiction. That isn’t to say that names don’t matter to me, because they do, quite a bit. They have to “fit”. Yet I have read war-stories from authors who sometimes spend a month or more of the writing/editing process …
How to Juggle…Writings.
Lately I have been reconsidering the pacing and scheduling of my non-deadline oriented writing. My freelance stuff for magazines and websites is easy to place on the calendar. Finish it by the time it’s due. No ambiguity there. Yet what about the more personal projects? And there need to be personal projects. Especially when the …
It’s Not Always Your Story
I have a notebook full of ideas for future pieces I could write. A line of dialogue, or a premise. Sometimes just a single event or concept. I take it with me just about wherever I go. (If you’re a writer, you should do the same thing, you know.) Thus far I have not even …
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