(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) Here, have some really straightforward, practical thoughts about plots and plotting. Of which I have way too many, btw. (Previous nuts and bolts caveats apply, naturally. Assume I have so many thoughts about this stuff because I’ve fucked it up pretty often.) :::: 1. A short story is... Continue Reading →
Building the Spear (or, despite my protestations to the contrary, it appears I wrote a game)
fanhackers: When building a spear, what matters: you, building or the spear? At the recent FSNNA conference (were you there? Did we meet? If you’ve been there, the panel recordings and the discussion space is still available for a week.), Katherine Crighton, Dr. Naomi Jacobs and Shivhan Szabo introduced an online game where you can create new... Continue Reading →
Nuts and Bolts: Jump-Starting Stories
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) Because I just did this, here you go: Some simple ways to start a story, particularly if you don’t know what you want to write about, but you know you need to write something. (For money, for practice, for mental health, for whatever.) Standard caveats apply. 1. The... Continue Reading →
Nuts and Bolts: Some Writing Advice
(Reposting a 2013 post from the Anna Katherine co-tumblr) A friend of mine awhile back asked the aether for some practical, straightforward writing advice, which I assumed meant nuts and bolts stuff. This is what I ended up writing to her. (Caveat emptor: 1. The reason advice looks contradictory is because it literally is different for... Continue Reading →
Katherine Crighton 