Writing Advice – Craft & Process
Collecting the posts I’ve written about the craft and process of writing
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Holy Crap Balls, This Is Incredible
INCREDIBLE THING 1: ANGELA SLATTER WON A MOTHER-FUCKING WORLD FANTASY AWARD Technically not…
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Resolving the Word Count Conundrum
So I got caught up in an interesting debate on twitter on…
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600k Year: A Conclusion, More or Less
Warning: word-count neepery associated with the 600k challenge follows. You can skip…
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Sneaky Writer Tricks: Estrangement and Disruption
So two lads with cellos do a pretty kick-ass cover of Guns’n’Roses…
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Three Things Writers Can Learn About Villains from Daredevil’s Wilson Fisk
It’s been a long time since I watched a TV show at…
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Writing Advice: David Farland on Tone
Sometimes you don’t have the language you need to adequately discuss a…
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The End of the Streak
I broke my writing streak last week. After 171 consecutive days of…
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The Problems with Word Count
Since starting the 600K Year, I’ve been aiming to write an average…
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What Can Get Done in Twenty Minutes
I’m always astonished by the patently untrue things I’ll internalise about writing,…
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Six Things Writers Can Learn from Highlander (1986)
Highlander is a terrible movie. I wanted to get that out of the…
