Last week I talked about how knowing your own taste can help you figure out the kinds of stories you enjoy writing. This week for #writingabtwriting I'm giving an example of my own work on this exercise using Dungeon Crawler Carl and Kate Daniels.
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Do you like Haruki Murakami's writing? Then you might like his recent biography masquerading as a writing book. Just don't expect a ton of actionable writing advice.
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On a piece of paper taped to a wall the quote “We often make a huge deal of starting. We make all sorts of excuses. Maybe it’ll be easier to concentrate when the children are in bed. Maybe tomorrow we’ll have a clearer head. Maybe next month we’ll get a new job so we have Monday’s to write. Yes maybe, but don’t spend today wondering about the maybes. Spend today writing. Always spend today writing, and before you know it you’ll be living a writing life and the maybes will have taken care of themselves.” ―Beth Kempton, The Way of the Fearless Writer. Underneath the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
Spend today writing.
Read my review of Beth Kempton's Way of the Fearless Writer here: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/the-way-of-t...
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Today's #writingabtwriting article is all about describing your taste. As in what do you *really* like. Specifically. It's an interesting exercise that can help you enhance your own writing.
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Rachel Aaron is able to write books incrediby fast through a combination of planning, excitement, and self knowlege. Worth a read even if you don't want to be a speed demon.
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Today's #writingabtwriting reviews the Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maass. If you are struggling to make your stories click with readers you might not be putting *enough* emotion on the page or making your emotional moments count.
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Tired of three act stories? Explore alternative narrative structures in Meander Spiral Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Alison.
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Quote typed on a piece of paper taped to a wall with washi tape: “At the beginning of a story, I am likely to have one or more images in my mind, some clearer than others (like the strip of light up Janice’s arm), which, when I examine them, suggest relations to one another. Using the story process—envisioning and notating, envisioning and notating—I try to move from one of these images to the next, lighting and focusing, step by step, on the dark areas between. As I move along, other areas well ahead in the tale will suddenly come vaguely into light. When I actually reach the writing of them, I use the story process to bring them into sharper focus still.” ― Samuel R. Delany, About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews. Underneath the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
Delany's description of his visualization process may not be your cup of tea. But it's the most detailed description of what writing feels like on the inside I've found so far.
Read the review: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/about-writin...
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March's Reading Report is up if you missed it yesterday. It's got monks in dark glasses, an ode to a lamp, and a confession of my complete addiction to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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March's reading report went up this morning. It's got monks in dark glasses, an ode to a lamp, and a confession of my complete addiction to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
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Want to speedrun your writing knowledge? Start with Roy Peter Clark's Murder your Darlings which summarizes over 50 writing books for their best advice.
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I've updated the site with a new tag for all of the Reading Reports. There's a lot of fun stuff in there if you want to end your doomscroll. Next report is up on Tuesday.
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On a piece of paper taped to a wall with washi tape, the quote “Visualizing a happier, more just world is a direct assault on the forces that are trying to break your heart. As Le Guin says elsewhere, the most powerful thing you can do is imagine how things could be different … What if?” ― Charlie Jane Anders, Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories. Underneath the paper in white writing the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
Trying a new format for quotes because I have some longer ones that didn't fit in the smaller format. Does this display the whole image for you?
Review: www.writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com/never-say-you-cant-survive/
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Pack a fun writing book with you on your adventures this spring break.
Where is your favorite place to write on vacation? (Mine is on a train.)
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My first #writingabtwriting guest post for another site is up on Medium for Drafting Through Life.
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Our very first guest post is up on #writingabtwriting. Drafting Through Life kindly wrote us one of their fables for writers.
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One year in, still bad at actually adding these to bluesky!
Thanks to everyone on here for your support this year, here's to many more.
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A piece of paper torn from a notebook and taped to a wall. On it is typed the quote "Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer." Zadie Smith. Below it in fainter lettering the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
Read anything interesting lately?
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A piece of paper taped to a pinkish wall with the quote "The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertizing." Hanif Kureishi. below the paper in faint white lettering the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
Your perspective is what makes your writing unique, don't give it up.
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A piece of paper taped to a wall with the quote "Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action." Kurt Vonnegut. Underneath in faint text the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
"Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action." -Kurt Vonnegut
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A piece of paper taped to a faintly pink wall with the quote "The real joy of writing comes from surprizing oneself." Alfred Kazim. At the bottom of the paper the url writing about writing about writing dot com.
How have you surprised yourself this week?
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Almost 10 years since I read it for the first time, I'm still recommending Techniques of the Selling Writer to people. If you know of a book more full of actionable writing advice drop it below.
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Writing just takes longer than it feels like it should, no matter if you're working on your first book or your 50th.
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Give your writing muscles a workout this week with these surprisingly fun books on grammar, punctuation, and rhetoric.
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I am terrible at posting things. February's #writingabtwriting reading report is up.
Things that brought me joy in Feb included a baby slow loris, deep rock galactic survivor, and life advice from a decor blog.
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Amp up your writing by getting specific. Extremely specific.
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For the evening crowd:
The newest #writingabtwriting review is on Revisionaries by Kristopher Jansma.
An interesting concept, done very well, with writing tips sprinkled throughout.
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A piece of paper taped to a blueish wall with the quote “I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.” — Patricia Hampl in blue pen. Also in brown ink, faintly at the bottom, is the url writing about writing about writing .com
People say "write what you know" but sometime you just have to start writing to figure that out...
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The newest #writingabtwriting review is on Revisionaries by Kristopher Jansma.
An interesting concept, done very well, with writing tips sprinkled throughout.
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A piece of paper taped to a wall with the quote "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness." Pablo Picasso. the url writing about writing about writing dot com is below the paper in white text.
Feeling stuck?
Make bad art.
It's only by making lots of bad art that you'll find the good stuff.
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