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Or, at least be aware of when you’re doing it. I use a Melitta “non-electric coffee maker.” I’ve been using it (the same one) since sometime before I got married, and that was thirty years ago. It’s nothing but a plastic cone, with a flat apron to sit on top of the long-gone glass carafe Continue reading DON’T Write What You Know  “Show, don’t tell,” Round N Over and over and over, you hear people saying that. “Show, don’t tell.” Usually, it’s said by someone who feels they must “be constructive” (ie, say something bad, but say it nicely) or they’re not being helpful. Well, guess what? Words can’t show! They can only tell! It was a dark and Continue reading It Was a Dark and Stormy Night I know I’ve covered this before, but I’m too lazy too check. Hey, I’m getting old. I get to indulge in repetitive blather. And one of the soap boxes I like to climb is that old favorite, “Who am I writing for?” In my Google Reader this morning, I came across New Launch: Peer Critique
Continue reading Writers vs Readers – Part N Winston Churchill did not say “I have nothing to offer but vermeil, moiling, delacrimation and sudorification.”
You know the feeling. You think you have the scene blocked out in your mind. You know your scene goals and your character motivations. You know what you’ve set up in preceding scenes, and you know where this one is supposed to lead. But the characters won’t behave themselves. They stumble through their blocking, looking down at Continue reading Can’t See the Scene? Watch the Movie Personal Update: You may not be seeing much of me on Twitter, this blog, and so forth for a while. I’m head-down in a new project, and can’t type fast enough to keep up. 12,582 words since the first of October, and they’re good. They’re done. They’re finished words. Unless I find some fine new golden Continue reading A Personal Update, And A Wee Bit o’ Writerly Technique Do an internet search for the word “wherefore.” Take a look at the number of times the word is used to mean “where.” I haven’t actually counted, and I’m not going to, but I do know that on the first three pages of search results, about a third were pointed to definitions, and about a third Continue reading Error o’ The Day: Wherefore Does Not Mean “Where” Maybe it’s just me, but this seems to be all over the internet lately. The phrase is “Hear, hear!” It comes from “Hear ye, hear ye!” or “Hear him, hear him!” and is a reference to “I hear what you’re saying, and I agree.” Think of it as an older way of saying “I heard that!” Continue reading Error o’ The Day: Here, Here! Advice on painting: Eliminate all unneeded colors. Eliminate all unneeded brush strokes. Every brush stroke should do one of two things: tell the story or build the subject’s face. Never use red. Whenever you want to add a color, ask yourself “Does this color add anything to the face?” If not, eliminate it. Ok, I made all that up. But I’m Continue reading Bad Advice, Part II – The Banned Tools I know. Heresy. Read on. I love StumbleUpon. There’s something magical about being able to just hit a button and see something I’ve never seen before. Well, I’ve seen a couple of sites more than once, but it’s not often. With over 150 million websites and blogs on Earth, it’s going to be pretty hard Continue reading There’s No Such Thing as a Synonym |
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