Do you have a favourite pen? Did it make writing more fun?
I recently gave in and downloaded the Scrivener demo (a generous demo of thirty days – that’s thirty days of actual use, not thirty days from when you first turn it on). It’s a great program you should definitely try and I plan to rework my WIP using it.
One thing I’m noticing when fiddling with Scrivener is not how useful it is (although it is), but how fun it is. Using a well-designed application can be fun, something that is oft overlooked. And I think a lot of us could do with having the writing process made more fun for us. Read more…
So how have we (and by that I mean ‘I’ of course) been doing in scaling the walls of this rut? Not very well it seems. Still too many of those distractions lurking about. So I’d like to explore some other idea’s about maintaining focus. Read more…
I used to put a great deal of importance on backstory. Backstory, I thought, really makes a tale great. And I used to think that meant spending ages refining it, before even starting on the story proper. Read more…
I’m coming to the end of a story. This is normally motivation in itself, but I think thus time I need a little push. Read more…
Okay, now we’re talking minimalist! You thought 140 characters was small, try doing a story in 6 words. Read more…
As Twitter has become more popular, many have been taking up the challenge of squeezing things down into 140 characters. What about stories? Read more…
There are some tiny tiny stories floating around out there. And although it’s not likely you’d ever publish one, they can be a fun exercise, and a good lesson in editing – most of which is cutting! I’ll post about three types of short short stories. First up is mini sagas.
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