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I am toying with the notion that my most important, and hardest, job as a writer (and perhaps in life as a whole) is getting out of my own way. Discuss, please. Here in the Comments, or on Facebook or Twitter. One way I try to accomplish getting out of my own way – which is working, [...] Since I am in a … curmudgeonly mood today, what with this thing and that other thing, I’ll just go ahead and whack on a chunk of Accepted Wisdom from when I was a tad. “Write what you know.” Do they still tell you that? (“They” being those nebulous Authorities, who always somehow know your business better [...] I’m always trying to learn how to write. I added two nifty tools to my box tonight. Quick – don’t think of a rhinoceros! Especially not, Gods forbid, a purple one. Yeah, it’s trite. Also true. It’s hard. So this is the task I’ve set myself. At least until next Sunday. Of course it may seem strange to blog about it, since I’ve complained blogging is a lot like work. Since it involves. You know. Writing. But [...] Just got a Facebook message from a friend who asked if it was acceptable, in a story she was writing, to describe as a background detail a poster starring an actress in a real-world movie she in fact was never in. My answer? Why they hell not? Reality: improved! One of my major concerns as a writer [...] Please help me answer my question, does each scene need a Significant Incident? Seriously. When I was in my early twenties and just getting started out trying to write a “real” novel – as opposed to the rather short porn novels I’d been writing – I found I had no idea what it felt like to write a full-length novel. Forget the awful challenge of a blank page. This was [...] … once I’ve walked it. That’s perhaps the single most important truth I know about my writing. Because of my perfectionist tendencies it’s been the hardest one for me to learn to live by. Learning to do so is probably the most important way I need to overcome my perfectionism. I was reminded of this today. I’m well [...] Introducing a new feature to help fiction writers learn about firearms. First installment: why bother getting guns right? Why I hate travelogues in fiction |
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