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 Writing. 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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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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W. T. Meadows on Developing a Readership
Author W. T. Meadows, a dear friend from college, was kind enough to answer my questions about how he developed a readership for his work. T...
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Triggered Readers
This story is abusive. This story is transphobic. This story is racist. These are all accusations I've seen leveled at writers....
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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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Writing Texting
When my characters text in stories, everything is always spelled out with punctuation. I realize it’s not how a lot of people actually ...
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Practice
Every single piece of writing you create, even the non-creative work, is practice. A journal, a letter to a friend, a blog post, a scho...
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Putting In The Time
When someone looks at a piece of writing (mine or otherwise) and says that they could do better, my first thought is, "Then you shou...
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Writing and Age
I’ve been writing for two decades. And by writing, I mean practicing and training and learning and pulling my hair out to try and get bet...
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Writer Bias
How can you tell the difference between a story with deeply troubling opinions, themes, and character actions and a story where the write...
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Don't Quit
Some jerk decides that your work sucks and thinks you should quit? Here's why you should do the exact opposite. If you haven't ...
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Writing: What To Master First
Grammar. The answer is grammar. Done correctly, you should never even notice grammar exists. It should be invisible. Bad grammar is d...
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Beta Readers
How to find and appreciate people who give free feedback. Who Are Beta Readers? A beta reader can be a writer or an avid reader and c...
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