I got a kick out of this post by Tolkien metallica fans (of which there are more than a few). It's not so much the ranking that make me snicker, it's the voice ( Read more... )

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BTW if anyone wants to talk worldbuilding. It certainly doesn't have to be about my books. I am totally here for it.

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Recently Ursula K. Le Guin has opened a forum over at Book View Cafe for questions about writing. She gets so many it closes again fast, but she seems to be willing to keep doing it. Reading through these show interesting patterns in both questions and answers, especially about point of view.

The other day I posted Jane Austen's writing advice clipped from her letters to a writing niece. Afterwards, I got three different people writing me privately to ask, basically, what is so bad about figurative language ( Read more... )

Not sure I agree entirely--I think language and writing both are messier and bigger-- but Steve Popkes had what I thought an interesting approach to code vs. cipher writing, and thinking.

And a few days ago, mrissa talked about favorite aspects of writing which I will simplify to inspired writing and revision. I used to love white fire writing the most ( Read more... )

Thinking about the power of the image--and yet how no one can successfully control or predict it completely--got me thinking about the power of image. That is fundamentally important for us visual writers.

I riffed about it over here. I promise, it's short! I don't know how boring it might be since I am talking specifically about my experience, ( Read more... )

Katharine Kerr channels my processWhen I was a kid, I couldn't write short stories because I always thought about "What comes after." When I closed a book, often I wondered about how everyone's life would change; in my stories, I could actually live it by writing it down ( Read more... )

I thought heleninwales had useful stuff to say about the frustrations of teaching writing, or even discussing process. Not that it isn't worth the effort. Not that it isn't helpful. But sometimes writers, in striving to find enlightenment, can talk right past one another.

superversive has posted a riff on the difference between hard work and working hard. He says, in part:

A pernicious belief is making the rounds, encouraged by some of the great gurus of self-publishing and self-promotion. The idea is that you have to pay your dues as a writer, by writing some set quantity (some say 500,000 words, some say a million) of ( Read more... )