writing

Useful tips. 1. “Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character. This means that every way the character describes the world must describe the character’s experience. You and I never walk into the same room as each other. We each see the room through the lens of our own...

I liked this. https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/voice-and-pov

New blog post by Rachel McCarron My First Crit Do you remember your first time? Was it exciting? Were you nervous? Did you just want to get it over with? One of the most wonderful of the many wonderful features of the Litopia Colony is The Lab, where writers can go to experiment with their...

The last clementine of xmas. A little gift to start the year right. https://archive.org/details/steering-the-craft-a-twenty-first-century-guide-to-sailing-the-sea-of-story-repr/page/n4/mode/1up

10 Writing Tips from Ursula Le Guin by Joe Bunting | 35 comments Ursula Le Guin is probably best known for her sci-fi and fantasy, but she also wrote poetry, creative nonfiction, and literary fiction. She won numerous awards for her work, and today, we share a few Ursula Le Guin quotes on...

This year's book, at midnight turns to footnote in the next. Terri Guilemets

“One of the disadvantages of literary awards is the fact that authors are writing to please a book award committee, rather than to spread the message of love, tolerance, peace, and serve humanity.” Mouloud Benzadi

Writing In The Stupid Age Anne Haverty Dec 05, 2024 Essay This is the text of the 2024 Stinging Fly lecture, which was delivered at the United Arts Club in Dublin on October 23rd 2024. I tried to resist calling this lecture Writing in the Stupid Age. It’s going to be misunderstood, I was...

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories - each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.' T C Boyle

The Head of Y Combinator, probably the world's most prestigious and worthwhile business incubator, has made a rare prediction about technology. He believes that generative AI will reduce the need to write so much that the world will be divided into the 'writes' and the 'write-nots'. Since he...

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work. Paddy Chayefsky

New blog post by mickleinapickle – discussions in this thread, please --- As you’ll know if you drop by the Colony between the 7th of each month and the 21st, we run a monthly contest between those dates in which you’re challenged to write One Perfect Sentence… It might be the first sentence to...

Seems a good deal. I've never entered these but I have spoken to people who are regulars and have gotten a lot out of them. https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contest.php#FlashFictionContest

'It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.' P. D. James

New blog post by Jason L. – discussions in this thread, please --- Thank you for bearing with me. As a reward, we’re leaving high school. We’ll only revisit it in my dreams from now on. I promise. Okay, we’re going to fast-forward now. I won’t bother you with the interim. I think we should let...

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”

No yu dont have to write for 24 hour straight. Just join the psychic energy. So many writers writing has too attract readers right? Maybe we should have reading sprints...

This blog hit me at jsut the right moment. https://foxprinteditorial.com/2024/11/14/how-specifics-make-your-stories-universal/

New blog post by Claire G – discussions in this thread, please --- The Good There’s so much to love about writing – the excitement of that initial spark of an idea; the stimulation of the challenge to make it work; that feeling you get when you find the perfect word/phrase/sentence/paragraph...

Yay! I've just had a zoom interview with Charlotte of The Golden Egg Academy. Having read my first 2000 words (of Dangerously Fae) and my synopsis, she thinks I'm a really strong writer and has accepted me onto their one year course for writing Children's and YA! (Starts January). It's a lot of...