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We're in the “similes are metaphors” camp.
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If you want to hook readers, you'll have less freedom to make changes.
Q&A: Do You Have Any Tips for Writing Interactive Fiction?
Submitted by Ronald,
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How Useful Are Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing?
Writers love to offer lists of rules for writing, especially if they’ve got a book to promote.
Episode 348: Process Advice
We know how to write, but do we know *how* to write?
Episode 347: Narrative Premise
Telling a story is one thing, but how you tell it is another.
Five Movies Critics Loved but Audiences Hated
Do audiences have no taste or are critics elitist snobs?
How Useful Are Neil Gaiman’s Eight Rules of Writing?
As a successful writer, he must have something useful to tell us, right?
Why You Shouldn’t Write a Masterpiece
Your magnificent novel in progress could be holding you back.
How Romanticism Harms Novelists
Your struggle with writing today may have an origin that's over 200 years old.
Episode 331: Flashbacks and Interludes
Nothing good happens in an interlude.
Episode 329: Writers in Stories
Why are writers so bad at writing about writing?
Episode 310: Productivity in Writing
How to put words on paper?
Five Ways to Build Your Storytelling Muscles
Direct instruction is not the only way to learn story technique.
Episode 294: Developing Story Ideas
You have an idea.
It’s Time to Throw Out The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Honor this book for how it impacted us and stop celebrating it as a storytelling achievement.
Six Common Misconceptions Among New Writers
The structures in place to teach storytelling are woefully inadequate.
Why Structures Like The Hero’s Journey Don’t Work
While these structures won't ruin a good story, they aren't providing what storytellers need.
Episode 288: Melodrama
Behold, a podcast with emotions so deep you can feel them in your bones!
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