Writing a story is akin to an abstract painting in a number of ways. You are, indeed, directly telling others what is happening…but you are also communicating how it feels to be there. Take a look at this lovely Monet. It is a depiction of a seaside cliff, yes, but it also tells you howContinue reading “Atmosphere in Writing”
Category Archives: Writing
Action Scenes Don’t Have to be Scary
To write, at any rate. Atmosphere is up to you. I have a theory based on…not much, to be honest…that a lot of writers stick to, say, college or coffee shop stories or such because writing action scenes scares them. (This is an epidemic in some corners of fandom.) This limits you as a writerContinue reading “Action Scenes Don’t Have to be Scary”
Writing Dialogue
We all know how people speak. It’s messy, more rapid-fire than you realize at the time, and conversations seem to flow in one long string. This is not how you write dialogue.
