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A Periodic Table of Storytelling Tropes (via @drcrypt, HT: @paulwiggins)
This is a very attractive periodic table generated from the TV Tropes website (NOTE: I did not link to that website because it is the black hole of the Internet; if you are interested in storytelling...
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Adventures in Collaborative Writing (via @jodicleghorn)
Disclosure: Jodi is my publisher and a friend! Don’t let that poor judgment on her part affect your enjoyment of her excellent article, though. How do you successfully establish and maintain a...
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Writing From The Middle (via @jamesscottbell, HT: @thecreativepenn )
James Scott Bell talks about his new Nobel Peace prize winning strategy for writing a novel: I’ve written maybe fifty novels (not all of them published!) and I’ve written them in all different ways....
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The Secret to Overcoming Writer-Envy (via @ZenaShapter)
Zena Shapter writes about writer envy, and it’s a helpful read for anyone (like me) who has had any combination of the thoughts, ‘Oh man that writer is so much better at writing than I’/’If only I had...
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What Is The Right Length For a Chapter? (via: @NatRusso, HT: @qldwriters)
Nat Russo talks about dividing up all those immaculate words you are putting down for your novel into good chapter lengths: Let me just preface everything I say in this article with “In the case of my...
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5 Ways To Write Characters That People Care About (via @WritersRelief, HT:...
I suck at consciously putting characters together. They kind of…coalesce…out of my writing. I don’t think that’s a very useful professional super power, and so this article helps character-deficient...
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Things I knew About Creating Characters When I Started Writing (via...
Well! It seems to me that the most important parts of crafting an excellent story go in this order*: Character -> Plot -> Setting/Concept The order in which I craft stories is this:...
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We’re losing all our Strong Female Characters to Trinity Syndrome (via...
With diversity finally getting a bit more stagetime in the industry (or at least discussions of diversity) it’s tempting for lazy artists to pay, effectively, lip service to the notion of having female...
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He Said/She Sighed – Part 1 (HT: @ginad129)
A great article here from Catherine Austen, which could be ‘here are some rules about writing rules’: Big picture rules are good, like: A book should spend more words on important scenes and fewer...
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How to Write About Characters Who Are Smarter Than You (via @Medium)
This is a great article by Graham Moore, the Academy Award nominated screenwriter of ‘The Imitation Game': [A]fter our scientist has finished, the camera turns to a second character. This would be our...
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