I follow @smoulderingsea on Twitter, and every once in a while he tosses out some sharp, smartย #editortips. A recent one went something like “if it doesn’t have anything to do with your story, it doesn’t matter how you love it. Take it out.” My response to this has traditionally been a whine of “it all […]
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So you know I’ve been poking at structure lately. Tonight mostly as a lark, (to look as if I were doing something) I started poking at working out a plot for Kolya. I started free-form. Just…writing things down as they occurred to me. That was getting me nowhere fast, and someone wanted to war, so
It CAN’T Be That Easy Read More ยป
Not much to say tonight. Just don’t want to lose the habit of blogging often, since it’s taken me so long to work back to it. Experimented with using tarot cards for plotting. Didn’t get far, since I don’t know tarot at all. And I kept getting distracted. Why is it all the captives in
Quoting from this site: A plot doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be new to the reader. In fact, it doesn’t even have to be new to the reader. It just has to get past him. (It helps if the story’s moving fast and there’s lots of other interesting stuff going on.)
Stupid Plot Tricks Read More ยป