Guest Post: Journaling In Character
Tonight’s post is brought to us by regular commenter Shinali, lady of the prolific (and hilarious) IC journals; she kindly offered this one to me after my request for guest posts a while back....
View ArticleGuest Post: The Liar
This is the first in a series of guest posts written by UZ–thank you so much! I am a “writer”, an unpublished author who makes text for others to read in the full knowledge that, for the most part, no...
View ArticleGuest Post: Why Lie?
A continuation of UZ’s series of guest posts, begun yesterday. Most writers who believe in the natural process will ask – why lie? If writing is supposed to be communication, shouldn’t we communicate...
View ArticleGuest Post: Wronging the Write
UZ’s guest posts continue. My background in fantasy and the weird means that I often write about upsetting things; I’ve discussed some of these in the past with our illustrious host. When we write...
View ArticleGuest Post: Dressing and Skirting
There are things that we shouldn’t generally talk about in fiction. It’s not that we are literally unable, or that we mustn’t because of some moral obligation. Rather, the reason is that we’re trying...
View ArticleGuest Post: Broken Bridges
UZ’s guest posts continue! There is a form of dishonesty that has gained popularity in recent writing, which for lack of a better term I will call the Broken Bridge technique. This is where the story...
View ArticleGuest Post: This Part of the Scene is Left Implied Because the Author’s Hands...
UZ’s guest posts continue. Nothing exposes the comforting lies of fiction more than analysis by the reader, which is why we avoid this as much as we can. One avenue to failure in this respect is to...
View ArticleGuest Post: In Conclusion
This is the last of the UZ guest posts; regular posts will resume Friday night/Saturday morning. Even as I am dishonest in fiction, so I am dishonest in most forms of composition; most readers will...
View ArticleImpractical Applications (Scattered Reflections)
Wow. UZ’s been busy. I admit, this set of posts was hard to write to, mainly because aside from a burst of inspiration today, I haven’t written much in the last several months that wasn’t either part...
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