Lest you think that veteran (i.e., experienced, tempered, refined—don’t say old!) writers are immune to beginning writer mistakes, all I can say is, think again. It’s confession time here in the Star Rigger foundries, where we labor 24/7 converting raw … Continue reading
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by Brenda W. Clough This material is in the nature of an esprit d’escalier. Over Memorial Day I was at Balticon, on a panel about revising first drafts. Unfortunately the great editor Gardner Dozois had just passed away, and the … Continue reading
I was invited recently to speak along with some other writers to a beginning creative writing class taught by an old workshop friend. This class was filled with writers who’d completed their first project this last November during NaNoWriMo, … Continue reading
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