a plot primer from the times uk
The Times UK has published a short, funny article laying out the purpose and function of plot. A quote: “A great many plot problems that show up in unpublished manuscripts can be resolved with a single...
View Articlewriter’s bookshelf: the tough guide to fantasyland
Up this week is The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones. This book has been around since 1996 (first publised in the UK, now available from Penguin the US through their Firebird imprint)...
View ArticleJim C. Hines on writing about rape in fiction
I highly recommend this essay by Jim C. Hines, just published over at Apex, about the perils and pitfalls writers may encounter if they choose to write about rape and other sexual violence in their...
View ArticleHanging a Lamp on It – a review of Garment of Shadows by Laurie R. King
I just finished the latest installment of Laurie R. King’s Mary Russell books (which feature an older, wiser, and in many ways more fully human Sherlock Holmes as her mentor and then later spouse), and...
View Articlefinding my swimming pool
I’ve been re-reading The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle (which I originally wrote about here), and was struck by an anecdote about the Z-Boys, amazingly talented skaters from southern California who honed...
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