Category: Technicalities

Writing When the Story is Failing

While writing earlier this week, the process felt like running in sand uphill. There was little evidence of progress. The desire to quit was great.…

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Fire

I am finishing a late draft of my current long-form project. The setting of the story is agricultural, pre-electricity. The family uses open flame for…

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Experiment: A Beta Reading Group

It is key to the late-stage development of any piece of long-form creative writing to engage beta readers. These are individual readers who read widely…

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From the Archives: About the Blurred Line

[This blogpost first appeared here on 4 May 2016] I'm going to get a bit academic on you here. Bear with me. The post is…

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Percy’s Six Elements of Story: Delay Gratification and Withhold Information

[This is the sixth and final part in a series of posts started on December 2, 2020. We’re exploring Benjamin Percy’s foundational elements of story…

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