John Baker’s Blog

 
Granny Scarecrow
Tears flowed at the chapel funeral,
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The most important single ability of a fiction writer is to be able to characterize. Unfortunately it is also an ability which can never be taught. That being the case I’ll confine myself, in this post, to try to show some of the most particular faults that beginning writers make in trying to assign characteristics [...]

1. Why do you blog?
For me, blogging is democratic journalism. You get your own little corner of the cyber universe, which is the equivalent of the comment pieces in the Sunday supplements. Okay, you’ll never reach the educated masses like Julie Birchill or Jon Ronson, but if you are erudite, eloquent or witty [...]

1.Why do you blog?
I maintain a weblog in order to:
. . . sustain & develop further a unique form of communication that enables me to write in reflective solitude in the traditional way, but also enables me to locate & interact with a critical readership almost immediately.
. . . be able to read across a [...]