Free Flow: Get Up and Create
If you’re stifled at the keyboard unable to find your free flow: get up and create.
It’s a common thing with authors and other creative types. You want to create but the creativity won’t flow.
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If you’re stifled at the keyboard unable to find your free flow: get up and create.
It’s a common thing with authors and other creative types. You want to create but the creativity won’t flow.
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Somehow 2021 has gone and 2022 is here, with multiple works in progress showing signs of, well, progress. It’s been an interesting couple of months; delivering classes, taking courses, a couple of events, some family health dramas, getting the builders off-site. And writing. It was a struggle at times, but the routine is re-established. …
With wide appeal and a long history, just what is the role of speculative fiction?
To use a definition from Masterclass:
Speculative fiction is a literary ‘super genre,’ …with speculative elements that are based on conjecture and do not exist in the real world.
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There’s a day for everything, and Monday 14 November is National I Love to Write Day.
Delaware author John Riddle wanted a day set aside so that everyone could spend some time writing. “It doesn’t matter what people write, as long as they write what they want to.” …
From his Free Writing Course online, we bring you Brandon Sanderson’s Three P’s of Plot. Fine advice for the budding author…
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October 16-19 marks this Autumn’s Escape the Plot Forest Writers Summit 2021.
Under Daniel David Wallace’s expert curation, a community of independent authors comes together in four days of craft sessions and writing prompts to tackle the difficult issue of plotting a novel. …
When I accepted the fantasy novel challenge, I didn’t bargain on changing point of view at the end of drafting Book One. To make the effort worth while, this has to be a series, but who is at the centre?
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What is scene structure in fiction? It’s exactly the same as the structure for the chapter and for the whole story. Scenes are the building blocks of story; you can treat each scene as a short story in itself. But it has to have a satisfying structure in order to keep the reader turning the page.
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We’re currently listening to The Everywoman (BBC Radio 4) and BBC Sounds. This neat, two-part documentary poses the question:
If there is an ‘Everyman’ in literature, can the experiences of a female character also be universal?
Novelist Sarah Hall (Burntcoat, Sudden Traveller, Madame Zero, The Wolf Border and others) goes in search of the Everywoman. …
Four books in progress and the main crutch is Derek Murphy’s twenty-four chapter structure holding them all together. Without structure, novels are just so many words. Structure is vital. But is has to be the right structure.
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