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Daily Archives: February 1, 2012
The Cloud Roads and The Serpent Sea
By Linda Nagata (cross-posted from Hahví.net) There is endless debate on what makes a story science fiction and what makes it fantasy, and I have no intention of entering those dangerous waters, but I am going to dabble my toes … Continue reading
Forging Stories 2: The Tools of the Trade
Ursula LeGuin has said that an artist’s job was to “put into words what cannot be put into words.” Writers, she says, must do this with words. Using words, we must capture action, character, place, and emotion. The words that … Continue reading
Posted in Writers on Writing
Tagged amateurism, craft of writing, Editing, maya bohnhoff, self-editing, word misuse, word use, writing strong prose
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