Lessons The Palate Cleanser 20 Dec 202120 Dec 2021 Changing Gears) Last week I posted the last section of my story The Salt Worms. While this piece was not the most words I've put into a short story (due…
Lessons Transition to Flashback 20 Sep 202110 Nov 2021 The First Recollections) 120 years ago, when film was still in its infancy, the first flashback sequence was conceived of, in the french film Histoire d'un Crime. Before the film…
Lessons Write What You Know . . . Then Surpass It 23 Aug 202131 Dec 2021 Places I Know) Last Wednesday I posted the first half of my new story, Secrets in the Mountain, and it was a very easy piece for me to write. In…
Lessons Why Do You Write That Way? 7 Dec 202022 Dec 2021 It Once Was Much Worse) At the end of my last story piece I mentioned that I had run into a little bit of trouble when transitioning from one scene…
Lessons Let Me Interrupt You There 23 Mar 202028 Nov 2021 Talking It Out) Being interrupted is one of the most hated parts of communication. Every idea that we speak of comes with it a desire to be completed. To be…
Improving Technique Update on My Novel: Month 8 1 Jan 202023 Nov 2021 DECEMBER STATS Days Writing: 7 New Words: 1,964 New Chapters: 0.5 Total Word-count: 25,907 Total Chapters: 7.5 Well, I knew that in December I was going to be limited in…
Lessons Time-Shifts 20 May 201917 Nov 2021 Time is an interesting thing in stories. Where in life we are constrained to move only in one direction and at a constant rate, stories give us a higher level…
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