People often complain about books having a zillion errors in them. "This author is terrible," some people think. "Did the publisher even hire a copyeditor?" others think ( Read more... )

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Part ThreeFirst, I’m going to note something: Character voice is a very hard sell to me. I do not hear most 1stP narrative voices as being particularly unique ( Read more... )

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One of the issues I have with 1stP narration these days is that it’s so common. I want more variety in my literary ecosystem ( Read more... )

Go read Part One first, so we’re all on the same page as far as terminology goes.

[Jeopardy! music ( Read more... )

It’s well known to those who spend even five minutes talking about writing with me that I am moderately anti-1st person (despite a plethora of enjoyable books written in it, including at least one of my absolute favorites, Nine Princes in AmberSo I said, “Self, let’s do some analysis of it and see if we can figure out where your problem is.” ( Read more... )

This morning I got to put - 30 - at the end of my 4th novel ( Read more... )

I know there are certain words that are overused in fantasy titles. It even has a title generator to lovingly mock it ( Read more... )

This is a thing I posted some 8 or 9 years ago.

I'm prompted to repost it by this essay by Max Gladstone ( Read more... )

Still not done with the current novel's first draft. I expected it to be 90K, but I'm past the big dramatic climax, past 100K, and still have a scene or two. Having the "do I dramatize this scene or just do it as a narrative summary?" dilemma ( Read more... )

Pretty much any time my lj goes quiet, it's a sign that I'm either busy at dayjob or actually writing fiction. The last two years it's been both ( Read more... )