The Dos and Don’ts of Internal Monologuing
Look, there’s a time and place for monologuing. Most of the time we’d say err on the side of LESS, but there are moments when your protagonist really needs to stop and take stock of what the frick is going on. However, we have some provisos. Yes, your story needs downtime now and then. Yes, a […]
Write Yourself Into a Pit (Then Dig Your Way Out Again)
Sometimes royally screwing with your plot is the only way to fix it…
Introduction to Short Fiction Part 2: So this one time, at bandcamp…
Welcome back to our Intro to Short Fiction series. Time to do some short fictioning. Before we start, have a re-read of Rebecca Makkai’s quote from the previous blog (we’ve stuck it up there for you too ^^^) and think of a funny or intriguing true story you’ve told recently – a water cooler tale […]
Writing about S-E-X (omg Mum please don’t read this)
Hi. Uh. How’s it going? Cool. So. You wanna pay attention for a second ’cause we need to have a chat. No you’ve not done anything wrong. It’s just, you know, a little one-on-one time, just talking about, um, you know, personal relationships. You know, like sex and that, no big deal. Ha. Hahahaaa. Haaaa. […]