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Writing Fiction: Which comes first, Plot or Character?
The Cuckleburr Times —
Authority: 125
Today’s Be My Guest Author is Kathryne Kennedy, Author of the upcoming My Unfair Lady. Whether plot or character comes first when composing a novel is sort of like the chicken and egg thing. It greatly depends on the author’s point of view. Plot and character are so entwined that it’s often hard to even ...22 hours ago -
NaNoWriMo
Read it or Weep —
Authority: 120
No, I’m not channeling Mork from Ork but want to share with you that November is National Novel Writing Month . It’s a very cool idea that began in 1999 when Chris Baty and 20 others in the San Francisco area decided they were going to write a 175 page novel in one month. Last year they had more ...3 days ago -
10 Ways to Find Inspiration for Your Writing
Fuel Your Writing —
Authority: 520
Where do you find your inspiration? Every writer suffers from a lack of inspiration at times. You sit at your computer, staring at the blank screen, wondering what on earth you’re going to write about. Be it an article, a blog post, a short story or a novel, you’re going to need a hefty dose of inspiration if ...3 days ago -
Writing on Teaching Yourself to Write
Writing on writing : Amlokiblogs —
Authority: 406
Time and again, Ive written about written about writing on this blog, so much so that people have asked me if Im a writing coach. That is one career path towards which I have below zero interest, mostly stemming from the unspoken yet amply felt statement, "Those who cant write, teach." Not true, I know, quite a ...4 days ago -
Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween
The Gist is a Blog —
Authority: 461
This post originally appeared as a guest entry at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days . Halloween has come and gone, and with it went the Twitter-fiction event, Cthalloween , which I first wrote about at Gameplaywright . (See the whole event via the Twitter hashtag: #cthalloween ) I went into the event with ...5 days ago -
Second Time’s The Charm
(S)wine -- shortleancuts —
Authority: 114
You’ll have to go through me. It was stupid, me standing in front of the door, arms outstretched horizontally, grabbing the frame like some glib, white Jesus, as if it was going to make any difference. She had been at the window most of the year. Smoking. Or…dreaming of something else. Anything. It was ...6 days ago -
A Writing Habit Has Been Formed
DC Femella —
Authority: 420
I never imagined that I would be waking up at 6:00 a.m. every morning without complaining. I also never thought that I would actually be writing a novel. Yes, I talked about it, and I had it as one of my long-term goals, but I didn’t know I would be doing it so soon. I am participating in NaNoWriMo for the ...6 days ago -
Unmooring ourselves….
Lady Nyo's Weblog —
Authority: 124
Ok,…that sounds wanky. But I was thinking this morning about just this. A couple of months ago I left a writers group I had been in for a few years. It was a good classroom for learning many things about writing. It was good. It was also addictive. I realized that all my writing there …well, most of ...1 week ago -
20 Years
(S)wine -- shortleancuts —
Authority: 114
—Come here, you have to see this. —What is it? —This is…wowee, come here. They’re in the kitchen, the two of them. He is sitting at the table watching the small black and white Sanyo. There are dozens of people sat on the wall. Dozens more are chipping at it with sledgehammers, regular hammers, one man ...1 week ago -
NaNoWriMo
Stropp's World —
Authority: 124
For the last couple of years I’ve intended to get involved in the NaNoWriMo event and spend November writing 50 to 60 thousand words on a subject of my choice — fictional of course, and probably SciFi or Fantasy. Every year something has come up to thwart that intention. And this year ain’t no different. The ...1 week ago -
Maslow’s Magic 8-Ball
Eternal Vigilance —
Authority: 132
Today we have another fabulous guest piece from horror author Mark. W. Worthen entitled “Maslow’s Magic 8-Ball”. According to his bio Mark W. Worthen is secretly a vampire. From his first young exposure to Dracula with Bela Lugosi to his obsession with Saint-Germain, Mark has found the vampire an fascinating and ...1 week ago -
Lit
(S)wine -- shortleancuts —
Authority: 114
I remember some things from the past. Like my father and I breaking up over Thomas Mann. I called him a child molester and my father stopped talking to me for three months. He disowned me over Ayn Rand, later, and we quickly became estranged. My father hated Jews, but he hated communists even more, and so he ...1 week ago -
Pacquiao vs Cotto Firepower Results: Round-by-Round
Blog From Cebu To The World —
Authority: 116
Pacquiao vs Cotto round by round results as imagined by this blogger. The fight will happen in less than 10 days so be sure to watch Pacquiao vs Cotto live on your PC, TV or in the nearest movie theatre. (Tickets at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas might have been sold out already, so you better watch it on ...1 week ago -
freedom
kansas city soil —
Authority: 410
Earlier this week, I downloaded Freedom and Ive been using it every day since. It disables your internet connection for however long you specify. Great writing tool. Today I set it for three hours.One of the toughest tasks of a writer is keeping your butt in the chair -- or at least keeping your eyes on whatever it is ...1 week ago -
Wednesdays Three Word Wednesday
Surface Tension —
Authority: 425
The words over at Three Word Wednesday are karma, obey and wither. Obey On the corner near my building, there’s a street musician playing a mournful tune on a battered violin. The case is open at his feet, a catch-basin for a little change and a whole lot of folding cash. A cardboard sign hangs around his neck ...1 week ago -
November is Writing the novel month
On Being a Writer —
Authority: 103
Im sure most of you are aware of all those writers who will begin to write their 50,000 word novel this month. Ive decided to unofficially join all those involved in this endeavor and write a novel Ive thought about for a while. If I can get down the bones in one month, Ill be that far ahead in finishing it, which I ...2 weeks ago -
Yah and Boo
2009: Another Year of the Books —
Authority: 513
*Not the Halloween kind of “Boo!” although there have been a lot of those lately, but the “Boo-hoo, I got rejected” kind of boo. Which is not half as much fun, as it doesn’t usually include a costume or candy. (Although, truly, how good would it be if editors delivered personal rejections and acceptances ala ...2 weeks ago -
art of fiction
kansas city soil —
Authority: 410
A couple weeks ago, I grabbed John Gardners The Art of Fiction off of Allies shelf and started reading. It turned out to be just the thing I needed to get me started writing fiction.Ive wanted to write fiction for years. But whenever I try to start, my mind locks up. I become overwhelmed by the immensity of the task ...2 weeks ago -
How do you scare a vampire? What would scare a guy that was already dead?
EK's Star Log —
Authority: 133
I have just run up against a problem that I could use some help on. One of my characters, just said this:“What a minute. Okay, let’s think about this situation we have here. So, this guy is a vampire, right? We know that. That means he can’t die, because he’s already dead. You can’t kill [...]2 weeks ago -
NaNoWriMo
Worldview —
Authority: 119
Today begins the thirty days known to many writers as National Novel Writing Month, “a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30″. I first attempted to participate in NaNoWriMo in 2007 and ...2 weeks ago
