Offensive Language in Fiction
In fiction, sometimes characters are ignorant, rude, or offensive. That's not the author's fault , that's the author's job ....
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Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opinion. Show all posts
Writing and Mental Health
At some point, anticipation to write becomes guilt over not writing enough. This mental line is defined by your expectations: what you thi...
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Accessibility of Phrasing
When I was 16, in a creative writing class, I mentioned that a classmate’s story used a lot of big words. Another classmate complained about...
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Toxic Activists
A few times in the past, I've considered appealing to my conservative friends and family by saying I know there are bad liberals and may...
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Judgmental
I grew up in the U.S. deep south as a preacher's kid, and one of the things I realized as an adult is this: the definition of a "r...
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Criticism of the Constructive Kind
When I was 16, I attended a New Orleans writing class where two of the three teachers criticized me for not speaking up more in critique cir...
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The Cost of Typos
When a self-published book has a typo on the very first page, that's two strikes. When it has errors regularly on the next few pages, t...
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On Writing Sex as a Christian
When I was sixteen, I stopped reading a story for a writing class because of the word "hardon." I got in trouble for it later w...
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Great Stories
A great story doesn't have to be widely beloved. What makes it great is that it resonates profoundly with certain individuals, not ...
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Character Conflict: The Subjectivity of Goodness
A pet peeve of mine is when all of the nice characters approve of each other, when they all have a similar set of values and understandin...
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Real Life Spotlight: "Rapture" by Fauster Kent
Real Life Spotlight is where I recommend works by friends and family in my real life. These are not guaranteed to be works in the same genr...
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Questionable Material
Writers are not responsible for morally condemning the immoral actions of their characters. I’ve seen writers who think that they need ...
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Books We Love To Hate
It is good when a book promotes critical thinking (and that includes books that you think handled a topic wrong ) because it opens up di...
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