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I am writing a speech, and I want to run something by you. In this land we are beseeched by a drug that is widespread and harvested by... -
MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.I'll just do it. The thing that's causing me to delay isn't any of the technical aspects of writing, as much as I have chosen such a big...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Too Many files!.Lots of good suggestions here. I shall be helpful by trying to complicate things. <g> One, the line between what is major and what is a... -
skip.knox replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.>. I'll take what I think is useful and discard whatever seems unhelpful, even if it's otherwise. Both halves of that are worth...
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Queshire replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.Is that a bad thing? 0_o EDIT: Haven't actually had a chance to watch the video at the time of typing this. Waiting to use it as... -
JBCrowson replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.Navel gazing your writing in a spongy place - are you writing in the bath again? FWIW (the square root of zero) I think post modern... -
JBCrowson replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.My take is that they (beat sheets) are neither inherently good or bad, but like all tools developed to help writers, they do not suit...
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Incanus replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.For me, learning and applying structure helped quite a lot. I don’t think I could have completed my rough draft (what I call a... -
Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.Ki is not human, but will itself cannot remain idle. Creation was not mercy — it was inevitability... -
Esraa_Saeed replied to the thread Creation of Arda.continuation: She did not hunt to survive. She devoured to erase. Serima mimicked the forms of other creatures, luring them into...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.I'm not highlighting because I agree with all of this. There's such a long tradition of only considering fiction to be 'legitimate' if... -
MMSadiq replied to the thread Thoughts on Beat Sheets for a Beginner.I'm getting into Arabic literature for this purpose. Also, history is much more unbelievable than actual fantasy, and much of Arabic...
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A. E. Lowan replied to the thread Too Many files!.We keep everything in Word and OneNote, and I strongly prefer to draft with one chapter per Word file, one folder per draft. That way...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Theme vs Preaching.I guess the real message she is trying to convey is that to convey the theme (or themes) in a work they need to be developed and all...
