When I first started writing seriously, I kept a little text file on my desktop where I would rapidly jot down ideas for the premises of stories. Eventually, this turned into a notebook that I tried and failed to carry around. Then it turned into a collection of random documents on Google Docs. It’s current […]
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10 Writing Rules You Should Break and Why
When you start writing, you cling to rules. Rules take this great sea of possibilities and attempt to turn them into a river that flows in one direction. They’re not necessarily bad ideas, but you can gain as much from breaking them as you can by following them. Here are a few writing “rules” and […]
Jetse de Vries on What Should be Left Unsaid in Fiction
Jetse de Vries on What Should be Left Unsaid in Fiction Jetse of Interzone has made a post talking about the balance of answered vs. unanswered questions in fiction. This is an attempt to pinpoint one of the things that makes a story resonate: that is, one of those qualities that makes a story stay […]