Mentoring young writers toward fiction writing excellence
A guest post by Sandra Orchard Details. Not a hundred of them listed ad nauseum, but key details unique to the POV character that are both fresh and rich in sensory information. Dig deep into the scene. Don’t just say your hero is wearing jeans … [Continue reading]
A guest post by Sandra Orchard Do you scratch your head when someone tells you that you need to “show, not tell”? It’s the key to writing compelling commercial fiction, but an often difficult concept to grasp in all its nuances. Today I’m going to … [Continue reading]
Protagonists, by story-telling nature, are the ones who are in a dilemma. Sometimes that means they've been put upon, taken advantage of, hurt, haunted, or chased after. But occasionally, when we write about their situations, we start to … [Continue reading]
I've referred in past posts to Larry Brooks' excellent book, Story Engineering. As I read this book the principles of plotting finally clicked--probably because Larry explains them in architectural terms, and I am a building designer by trade. … [Continue reading]
That's what my professor said as he ripped miniature trees from my architectural model--the one I'd been up all night completing. I dreaded project juries. We hapless wannabes, sagging with exhaustion, would attempt to communicate our grand … [Continue reading]
