No, this post is not about time travel. Instead, this is a selfish post prompted by issues I’ve been working through with regards to my current novel project, Impressions, and it will focus on how to progress a story through time.
Fictional (Un)Just War Theory
A fantasy story I was reading recently which featured an alternative world setting and so forth, happened to mention war crimes. It presented this as natural and expected, except that the world-building did not support it.
Powered by Limits
It's why authors should spend more of their time thinking about limitations than capabilities, because that's where they'll find the most interesting stories.
Always Another Story
You can submit to rejection and feedback without these being critiques of yourself, rather than just your story, because there will always be another story.
Patterns and Poetry in Prose
With poetry remaining, for now, something of a mystery, I've turned my attention towards instead applying certain poetically derived techniques to my prose.
Showing the Word Budget
I think of word limits as budgets. I have some number of words with which to tell my story, and I cannot spend more than that number.
A story of Conflict
When I try to write stories and they don’t work, I’m increasingly seeing that the common thread is that they lack a sufficient, permeating conflict.
Reality-Proximal Storytelling
If we take the complete, whole-cloth invention of a new world as one extreme, and reality-proximal stories set firmly in our world as the other, then what I'm interested in talking about today is the middle ground.
Audience and Word Choice
For whom you are writing matters, and whether your story is enjoyed or not will depend almost as much upon who is reading it as on what you put into writing it.
Writing Resource: Uncle Orson’s Writing Class
I was poking around on Orson Scott Card's website recently and came across an archive of essays on writing called "Uncle Orson's Writing Class."
IGC Publishing 