This started out as a reply to beyond_elechan's post here in which she looks at some writing advice posted by Jim Butcher in his LiveJournal and points out its limitations. But as the comment got rather long, I thought it would be better as a post in its own right.

As beyond_elechan says, people write in different ways, so to clearly state that a writer should ignore the ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone doesn't read matociquala (and also so I can add it to my "memories" for future reference), here's an excellent post by Kate Elliott aimed at new novelists.