Getting Started
I have a habit, bad or good, I’ve no idea, where, once I’ve written something, I read over it several times, almost obsessively, trying to imagine what some other reader would think of it. I’m not sure why I do this, and I’ve always felt at least a little silly about it, but there it [...]
Fictionalizing Stories from Life
If you are writing stories from your life, there are may reasons to fictionalize them, or at least fictionalize elements of them. I’m going to briefly focus on three: For your benefit For the benefit of the people you’re writing about For the benefit of your reader We’ll start with the most obvious, for benefit [...]
Post 30 – All’s Well that Ends Well
This is my penultimate post in Connie Green’s 30 day challenge (I’ll end with 31 posts. I’ve always been an overachiever. Okay, a teacher’s pet. You can say it.) Because of this, and because I’ve already covered Beginnings and Middles, today I’ll talk about endings, and use Mr. Shakespeare’s title without compunction or permission. What [...]
Post 29 – The Muddle in the Middle
A few days ago I posted about beginnings of stories, which can actually happen in the beginning, the middle or the end of the written work. Now let’s look at the middle. Often, I’ve heard that the basic reason that much writing doesn’t quite work is “the muddle in the middle.” I think this can [...]
Post 25 – Beginnings at the Beginning
It’s a new year, and as such, I thought I’d talk a little about beginnings. The western notion of story structure (no, it’s not Universal, I’ll talk about that in another post) dictates a beginning, a middle and an end. It dictates setups and payoffs. It dictates some sort of change to happen to a [...]
Post 23 – Writing a Short Story
I love short stories. I have read them all my life. I have had subscriptions to New Yorker, AGNI, Omni, Asimov and other magazines just so I could read the short stories. I have collections from Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post. And, of course, many, many collections of science fiction short stories. I have [...]
Post 10 – Avoid Clichés – Unless You Don’t
In yesterday’s post, I mentioned that I had a thought that I hoped wouldn’t become a cliché. It turned out that the thought was so cumbersome and convoluted that chances of that happening were very small. (I almost said moot, but that would be entirely too cliché.) However, it started my mind swirling around with [...]
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