Category: Craft
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It’s okay to repeat yourself throughout your story as long as it serves the story and your readers.
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It’s important to get other people to read your writing if you want to improve your craft.
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Last week I dove into Ray Bradbury’s thoughts on the art of science fiction. This week, I take a look at Ursula K. Le Guin’s thoughts.
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Writers write. And writing every day is an important habit that will keep your momentum, and joy, up.
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In The Paris Review Ray Bradbury discusses the art of writing science fiction.
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Outlining before writing not only saves time but it also frees you up to actually enjoy writing.
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The style and voice of the narrator is one of the most important aspects of a story.
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Characters push the plot forward. It’s an easy thing to forget, but it can make or break your story.
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The Golden Age of magazine science fiction offered us some great stories, but also some very confusing ones, which got me thinking about our different styles of writing.
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Thinking about science fiction got me thinking about storytelling in general. So I went back to the original guide on storytelling, Aristotle’s Poetics.