Posts Tagged ‘advice’
I’m disappointed, Internet. I thought you understood. I thought you got it. I mean, shit, I went through a lot of trouble earlier to get you up to speed on the whole “beard situation.” I laid down the law: beards have flavors, beards have powers, beards are sentient creatures. All that. And yet, what do [...]
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Ah, yes, that old chestnut.
“Write what you know.”
A bit vague, innit?
Do we even know what it means? Is it suggesting that we should only write the things we ourselves have experienced? Perhaps it’s saying to write only those things we know in our hearts. Then again, it could be a direction to do your research: [...]
I know. It’s a tenuous metaphor. Bear with me.
You flip over a baseball card — erm, excluding the Honus Wagner card, which obviously features a delightful cigarette advertisment — and what do you find?
Stats. Right? Every player’s got stats. Hits. RBIs. Batting average. ERA. Throws right, bats left. Whatever. (Some players have a sidebar that [...]
Some weeks back, I mentioned transmedia, blah-blah-blah, and someone asked, “Hey, something-something transmedia?” And I was all like, “Shit yes I can talk about that!”
Then I probably fell asleep. Likely with a beard of vomit atop my actual beard and a squalling baby — not my own — in the other room. You’d be amazed [...]
Here’s the deal. Over the weekend, I saw a great article that I encourage you to read:
Ten Rules For Writing Fiction.
Starts with Elmore Leonard, after which you find a series of other writers (Neil Gaiman, f’rex) giving their ~10 rules for fiction writing. It’s an enlightening read. It’s nice to see that other writers have [...]
