Poetic Technique for Prose Writers
Blog Post – Poetic Technique for Prose Writers I love language. The sound of words. The […]
The Freedom of the First Draft
I hope everyone survived NaNoWriMo. How’d you do? Even if you didn’t hit 50K, I hope […]
Narrative as Interpreter in Fiction Writing
When we’re talking fiction writing, what really is narrative? It’s everything that isn’t action and isn’t […]
A Writer Reads, Always
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to […]
Well, I wasn’t expecting THAT!
This whole month, I want to talk about the relationship between writing and reading. I’ve talked […]
Freytag’s Pyramid
In 1863 Gustov Freytag, first known as a playwright and later a novelist, published Die Technik […]
Well, Darlings, You’re Weighing Us Down . . .
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill […]
This Thing’s Important, Right?
One of my favorite books from the Children’s Lit classes I took in college was Treasure […]
Villain Under Construction: Villain Arcs
We’ve been talking character arcs at SNW, so I wanted to bring out once special kind […]
