Patterns and Creative Work
Patterns are good to start creative work, but concrete details are needed to be understandable to others and to finish the creation. An example, I know a person who uses 'always' when something happens twice…
Category: Craft
Sub Categories
Choice of form to write
Staying motivated to write
Writing style
Two Methods of Thinking
Pattern-matching, like analogy, where we treat partial matches like exact fits. It's possible to make errors. It's possible to jump to a good answer without complete information. This is the source of much intuition and…
Writing Class
"Story" is the events in the narrative, while "plot" is the logical and emotional relationships between the events.
On Writing Well – William Zinsser
Subtitle: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction Good, solid advice.
Creative Writing Feedback
Good feedback from teacher last night on a sample beginning I wrote up. He said that it wasn't clear, soon enough who the main character was. I had too many named people for a short…
Harrison Bergeron
Vonnegut's dystopia results from enforcing equality of results rather than equality of opportunity.
Reviewing Fiction
I came across something recently that's good advice for a casual reviewer. Instead of having to say you like something and write up thoughts, use BCD codes.