Recent content by Karlin

A tie between Boris Badanov and Snidely Whiplash.

I don't see the advantage in analyzing poor writing, rather than learning from good writing.

I know you always say that, but I disagree. I say: Read a lot, and write as much as you can."

In my novel, The Second Journey, on of the main characters originally went by multiple names. The monkey King, Sun Wukong, Pilgrim, Great Sage....i was following the Chinese Journey to the West. Very quickly i discovered that this was confusing to readers ( beta readers complained).

You are naming the chapters to help the reader know who's viewpoint it is. 1. Do you really need to? Won't the reader understand whose viewpoint it is after a few sentences? 2. My attitude is: write first, worry about such details later.

An experience. We were in Rome a few years ago, and in teh entrance area to the Vatican museums I saw a tourist who was heavily tattooed. He was busy zipping legs onto his pants ( youi need to be properly dressed there). Then we went into the museum, and in the sistine chapel, I had a vision ...

I finished a first draft of my current project. It took about 10 months to write, a good part of it research. I've got a list of things to look for when editing, ranging from the weather to characters who might require more development ( I need to be careful with this, as I don't want to lose...

I've run into this issue with my current work, a time travel story involving Michelangelo. "Everybody knows" that he was gay, but in reaity many of us want him to be gay. It's not that clear that he was. Not to mention that it is very problematic projecting modern ideas of sexuality on 16th...

I am not a worldbuilder. I don't understand the attraction of it as an activity. Having said that- go for it! there isn't anything "bad" about it. If your goal is to end up with a novel, you'll have to have good story as well.

I can't even imagine writing at that pace, nor for so long. I slog away, 500 words a day is pretty good for me.

A short story. A horror story about a medical student who slowly loses his miind while doing disections in anatomy class.

I just threw out a chapter in my own writing. It happens. Don't view it as wasted effort. You needed to write those two chapers in order to figure out the third.

The question is how to tell your readers what the setting is. You can drop a few details near the begining that will show this. A title page that says" Rwalabraship , year 5723". Or even a map.

Fritz Lang, Metropolis

Inspiration is a major part of my creative process. Why would I want AI to inspire me?