The Clinic is adding a few new exam rooms, and we need input from our writers on what topics we'll tackle in the future.

So far we've put together, with much appreciated help from everyone, a list of writing resources and some great essays on the craft. We've offered two sets of Kickstarters dialogue prompts and gotten a wonderful response to ( Read more... )

But I gotta stay with canon, and it's causing me problems. First I began this story about Wilson's wife, and I was thinking of having her have an affair, but then decide to stay with Wilson anyway, even though on TV people usually wouldn't make that choice. Well, sure, I can still do that, but the bloom is off the rose. She's simply not that ( Read more... )

For many writers, the hardest part of finishing a piece of fiction comes at the end. Writing the dreaded summary is something many writers mention as being difficult. Actually, the phrase “I suck at summaries” tends to come up a lot ( Read more... )

Extrabitter did an essay over on housefic_meta looking at creating the series “Knots,” and I thought I’d essay a bit here myself. Hopefully some of this will be worthwhile, but I wanted to address a little bit about writing a longer story as a Work In Progress, and also how reader feedback can influence that WIP, or at least how it impacted what I’ ( Read more... )

This is a writers-helping-writers forum for Housefic authors to discuss and practice the craft of writing. Or, as pwcorgigirl put it rather aptly, the place you go to get things fixed. Got a WIP that needs a cat figurine removed from its nostril? A rewrite crying out for some little blue pills (or at least a handful of candy)? You’re in the ( Read more... )