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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How work can inform your fantasies
I don’t tend to do a lot of research before I write. A little perhaps, but generally speaking, I prefer to create worlds where I can just make stuff up….
You show me yours and I’ll show you mine… Writing spaces
I don’t know about anyone else, but when I’m writing, I go to another place. I might be physically sitting in this chair (see photo), but as my family can…
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…
