Write Gooder, not Better
As a kid, I was surrounded by science-fiction. Names like Frederik Pohl, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Larry Niven stared down at me from bookshelves with covers that spoke of far-flung worlds with exotic...
In a continuation on last week’s post about reality, I want to talk about specificity. Have you thought about this? The connection between specific images and reality? So far, it’s the most fool-proof way...
You may have had that moment. You hand a piece over to a friend or a reviewer and they come back to you saying, “I don’t believe that character would ever do that” or...
(Boys, don’t feel like you have to sit this one out!) Teenage girls get a lot of stick. Anything marketed towards teenage girls, or that teenage girls like a lot, tends to get labelled...
(A quick author’s note- I’m sure you were all expecting the wise and lyrical Hannah to be writing this post but due to unforeseen circumstances, you get me instead. I will try and be...
Let’s get this out of the way. I am white. I am white and I grew up in bland Midwestern America. I love my hometown and the place that I’m from, but it’s bland...
The more I review, the more a trifecta of necessary elements calls my attention and gets my mind stirring. You’ve read them. The “un-successes”. The moments of a novel that are all imagery —...
It’s a pretty standard aspect of any skill. Before you go for a long run, you take a warm-up walk. Before you go on stage to belt out opera to a full stadium, you...
