A little writing exercise I like to do when my characters aren’t livening up: “What would s/he notice?” I’ll put a prompt with that based on a risk-laden situation. In John  Greene‘s YA novel, Turtles All The Way Down, a risk-laden situation that occurs early in the story involves his two main characters. Daisy and […]

Source: How To Be Convincing: It’s All In The Details

Every story seeks, according to Emerson: the “invisible and imponderable.”  To get at the emotional truths that hide in shadows and lie buried under surfaces, to get at those hidden truths, adds Anthony Doerr (author of All The Light We Cannot See), writing in Four Seasons in Rome, “The reader first and foremost must be […]

Originally posted on Life in the Realm of Fantasy:
I write in many different worlds with widely varying levels of technology and forms of government. I’m an avid reader, and always have been. Some of the worst books I have read were bad because the setting made no sense or was unclear. This has been…

Originally posted on Mindy Halleck:
If you’re looking for some great fiction writing classes here in the Seattle area, below are classes taught by Scott Driscoll, that I can highly recommend. Check them out. Advanced Fiction Writing: Story Structure COURSE DESCRIPTION The fall class will be divided into three parts. In part one, we will…

Source: Leaning Out Over the Abyss

“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.” (Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead.) When I sit with my clipboard to do research and to write notes in my favorite café, often  mopping at sweat from having recently climbed off my bike, trying not to hear the conversation from […]