Random Friday advice
The 22 rules of storytelling, according to former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats: #1: You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. #2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different. #3: Trying for theme [...]
Interesting source
Just happened across a website with a number of articles about fantasy writing. I’ve skimmed a few and they look well-written and helpful. http://www.forresterlabs.com/limyaael/
Computer fail
So I’m sitting on the hubby’s computer right now, because my hard drive crashed yesterday. And of course, hard drives only fail when you haven’t backed up in a while. Wednesday’s Wisdom: Back up your stuff. Often. Luckily, I had just sent a copy of the second draft out to my critique group, so if [...]
Personal fiction writing rules
Eh, why not? I actually do have certain things I keep in mind while writing. 1.) Symbolic details. You can’t describe everything in every room a character walks into, nor do you need to. Nobody notices everything all at once. They notice the things that call to what they are feeling. Someone who is down [...]
Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 rules for fiction
I figured this would be a good place to start Writer Wisdom Wednesdays. Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. [...]
An interesting article about Ayn Rand
Don’t know how many Objectivist fans I have on board here, but this is an extremely well-written article by Nathaniel Branden, one of Rand’s close associates for a number of years. He highlights precisely what is attractive about Rand’s philosophy, and where it falls short. More eloquence than I’d be capable of on the subject. [...]
This is great, so I must quote it
“To All My Democratic Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular [...]
Quote of the day
From Randy Ingerman’s Advanced Fiction Writing e-zine: “Fiction is about telling lies. Big,fat, hairy, prevaricating lies. If you want to write about the truth, or approximately the truth, or even something remotely approaching the truth, then the career you’re looking for is called “Journalism.” It’s a fine career choice, but it isn’t fiction.” To amend [...]
I like this woman
This is good advice. Hope Clark: 10 Things They Don’t Teach in Writing Classes
Me, Briefly
Mariah Dennison, fantasy writer and artist. Have written two books in a series, and one stand-alone. Currently working on another stand-alone, plus whatever art projects I've got going at the time.
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