A writer’s trick: the sore tooth gambit
I recently reconnected with an old friend from my competitive Scrabble days when he dropped a note on one of my posts. Digging deeper, I discovered an article on his…
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Which comes first, the story’s mood, or yours?
In creativity theory, there is an interesting result, first published by two guys named Trope and Liberman. [1] It states that making intuitive leaps tends to get you thinking about things in…
Anatomy of a recap
One of the horrors I had to face when starting out on Strange People (the sequel to Strange Places) is this age-old question: How do you recap the story for…
Chaos is our friend
One of the things I’ve been pondering is how best to include creativity theory in my postings here. It’s easy enough, of course to simply tell you about some of the…
Sanderson’s Principle of Limitations
Brandon Sanderson recently posted a thoughtful article on the nature of magic systems, stating that the most important part of an author’s magic system isn’t in defining what things users…
