This blog post is included in: No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler December 5, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt … Continue reading
Daily Archives: April 22, 2013
Odysseus was proud. Bilbo Baggins was shy and cowardly. Othello wouldn’t listen. Superman barfs in the presence of kryptonite. Vampires die in sunlight. Silver poisons werewolves. See the difference? Every hero has to have a flaw. A flaw is a … Continue reading
Lately, I’ve been talking with two other writers about craft. Our styles are widely divergent. We, naturally, each insist our own way is best…but what we really mean is that the way we write is best for US, not necessarily … Continue reading