When you write, there’s a certain satisfaction and even relief to coming to the end of the story. But how do you know you’ve come to the end? If what you’ve written is a rough or a first draft, you know you haven’t really come…
Category: Writing
Some writers feel that their characters are autonomous; they speak and act on their own, and the author just follows them around and writes things down. I’m not one of them. Yes, your characters have to seem to be autonomous. Your characters have to seem…
Say what? You’ve heard of alternate realities. Tell me you’ve heard of alternate realities. Parallel universes? Quantum probabilities? Schroedinger’s Cat? ANYWHO, I’m talking about the concept that there are multiple possibilities in any situation — in the case I’m making, in a writing project. I…