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Write What You Know?

Michael Snyder at The Master’s Artist doesn’t know anything at all. But he still wants to write:
So what I have to do is start writing and see what happens. Eventually I get to know the world that comes trickling down from my brain and out of my fingertips. At some point I find a guy [...]



A Writer’s Notebook VIII

It wasn’t an everyday event. Bodies weren’t. Altogether, not in this part of the country. You could be a serving officer for your whole life and not come into contact with a body. Maybe in London, Manchester, Birmingham, big cities. In those places you would have to deal with bodies, still not every day, but [...]



Presque vu XXXI

Writerjenn has some advice for people who would like to write fiction. This is an extract. Follow the link for more.
Why are my bad guys so bad? Were they good once, but were hurt somehow? Can they become good again, or are they past hope? What are their redeeming qualities? What [...]



Character Blogs

A character blog is a blog written in the voice of a fictional narrator, of which there are several examples currently on the internet.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is one, another is the more recent Bono’s Blog (Saving the world one song at a time). Neither of these blogs are written by the person [...]






About Writing:

Now in every writing class you find people who care nothing about writing, because they think they are already writers by virtue of some experience they've had. It is a fact that if, either by nature or training, these people can learn to write badly enough, they can make a great deal of money, and in a way it seems a shame to deny them this opportunity; but then, unless the college is a trade school, it still has its responsibility to truth, and I believe myself that these people should be stifled with all deliberate speed. Flannery O'Connor

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