I agree with most of Mark Twain‘s advice to writers, but not all of it. Please bear in mind that this advice was given specifically in the context of Twain’s pillorying of the writing of James Fenimore Cooper, whose writing Twain detested. Of course, Twain…
The wonderful Cairn Rodrigues tagged me in this Writing Process blog post meme that’s going around like the Spanish Influenza of 1918. Fasten your seatbelts. My Writing Process I begin by pretending. “Duh,” I hear you say? Be nice. I begin by pretending I’m going…
Know what a story bubble is? Maybe you do, but you call it something else. Some people call it a web. What it is is a way to get a story started. You begin with a prompt: an image, a word, a phrase. You write…
