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The Elements of Critique, 3/4: Unsolicited Commentary
Take a look at the opening explanation if you haven't already. What I define as critique/concrit might not be what you expect if you've been pointed here from a fandom source ( Read more... ) -
The Elements of Critique 2/4: Stream-of-Consciousness Criticism
Take a look at the opening explanation if you haven't already. What I define as critique/concrit might not be what you expect if you've been pointed here from a fandom source ( Read more... ) -
The Elements of Critique 1/4: Giving the Good with the Bad
Take a look at the opening explanation if you haven't already. What I define as critique/concrit might not be what you expect if you've been pointed here from a fandom source. Granted, I'm several years out of date on fandom, so who the hell knows. Maybe now I'm preaching to the choir/totally wrong ( Read more... ) -
The Elements of Critique: Foreward, Explanations, Excuses
So, a while ago--maybe like, two years ago? Ha--I promised a post on critique. It turned into four posts, which I wrote some time last year to experiment with content marketing techniques. I needed something to talk about, and well, I have wordy opinions about critique that I firmly believe are the right ones, and I'm not going to let reasonable ( Read more... ) -
The Purge begins. (Completed.)
As promised some time back in September, I'm locking down the majority of my old entries. Here's what you should know if you're interested:
- A select set of entries will be unlocked again. Here's the list.
- Friends-locked entries from January 2016-onward are exempted.
- I'll take requests to re-open others, but no guarantees.
- I probably won't cross- ( Read more... )
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Maintaining mirrors and the recent LJ exodus.
It's that rare beast: an unlocked entry ( Read more... ) -
100 Things 020: Mystery Formula
Brought to you by the mystery novel formula, although the post isn't about mysteries of that sort.
In the end, I had to give my Tales of Zestiria obsession a little outlet. Not too much, because the last thing I need is an epic on my hands, but something. I found out I'm pretty rusty when it comes to fan fiction. I also noticed a few other ( Read more... ) -
100 Things #19: The Valley Filled With Clouds
"The problem with writing is writing. The discoveries in writing will be made in writing. The solutions to story problems - structural, motivational, existential - will be found in writing. ... Your middle will not arrive through thinking, and while it may arrive in dreaming, dreaming is more likely to produce results if you fall asleep while ( Read more... ) -
Innominat, Maotelus, and The Five Lords
Wow, rain. It's coming down hard ( Read more... ) -
100 Things #018: Writing blocks, and the fear of thinking
When I think of writer's block (that thing which supposedly doesn't exist), I imagine what I went through in 2010: a complete lack of motivation to write, an inability to string five words together in a way I thought was decent, and a trend in which everything I managed to finish was awful. This sort of thing understandably makes me stop writing ( Read more... )