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Fiction: craft and business
Magical Writer Spreadsheet 2017
Magical spreadsheet of writerliness
Historical thesaurus
Digging for holes with a plot-grid
The presence of women
Build-your-own choose-your-own
Cultivating good critique partners
Writing for theme
Learning by obsession
10+ reasons your story is rejected
Disjointed action scenes
The problem with strong female characters
Odyssey-mate: J.W.Alden
Writing resources 3 - mythic scribes
Writing resources 4 - Sanderson's lectures
Writing resources 2 - Writing Excuses
Writer resources - Odyssey podcasts
Gender roles and politics in fantasy
Writer rants - food for thought
Shane Black - King of the Hollywood Script
Make your reader cry
Print still matters (for now)
The afterpunch
The problem of plot-personalities
They don't make funnies like they used to
Rewriting to fit the ending
Anti-shortcuts
Outlines are more than just "stuff happens here"
What not to do with your antagonist
Writing games - one of these things is not like the other
Creating temptation
How not to write a novel: Here comes the new plot, same as the old plot
I've written a novel - now what? The synopsis
Subtext, Styles, and Snipping down your novel
I've written a novel - how to write a query
Writing games - Quick, pack a flat kangaroo
I've written a novel - what now?
Writing games - one hundred endings
How not to write a novel #9 - the central conceit
How not to write a novel #8 - the ending that doesn't
Writing games - motivation
Writing games - editing backwards
Writing games - The rubber ducky
Writing games - ideal workspaces
Writing games - culture clash
Writing games - the story of music
Writing games - inverting the character arc
Shifting the protagonist - game story writing
Writing games - anti-archetypal
Writing games - my kingdom for a bucket
Voice and formulas
Writing games - finding the journey
Writing games - Fixing a 'told' story
Writing games - secret boxes
Invisible writing rules
Writing games - situation comedy
Cleverness
Writing games - steak detectors
Writing games - scent and memory
Writing games - Why do you write?
Writing games - the technology trap
Creating real bravery
Writing games - more than the pronouns
Writing games - hoarders
Writing exercise - your favourite book
Writing games - illogical crime
Writing games - Emergency plans
Writing games - expanding boundaries
Writing games - subverting expectations
Writing games - train yourself to see ideas everywhere
Writing exercises - procrastination notes
Plots are like onions. Onions drawn by Escher.
Writing games: Point of View
Writing game - what's your process
Writing games - The renovator's dream
Schrödinger's plot
Writing games - alpha readers
Writing games - branches
Writing games - It's how you get there
Writing challenge: NaShoStoMo
Writing games - and then left at Albuquerque
Writing games - what could possibly go wrong?
Writing game - replaceable nouns
Writing game - Exactly the way that bricks don't
Writing game - pitch me a story
Writing game - emergency brakes
Writing games - anywhere but here
Writing games - Sherlock
Writing games - Spacejump
Writing game - Lonely Apollo
Writing games - Unorthodox travel
Writing games - notes to self
Writing games - apocalypse how
Writing games - escapologist
Writing games - Robinson Crusoe
Writing games - Metaphor only
Meaningful game stories
Writing games - You can't get there from...
Writing games - Next chapter, please
Reflecting
Writing Games - What's my line?
Nano - across the line
Writing games - stolen voices
Writing games - your neighbour's monologue
Nano, week three.
Writing game - more numbers games
Nano - into week 2
Writing games - Clowns are scary
Writing games - Write by numbers
Writing games - Roll to disbelieve
Series - don't lose your core
Writing games - hey, that's my line
Writing games - They're playing my song
Writing games - zombie apocalypse
Writing games - Carry the egg
Writing games - MacGyvering
Writing games - Interviews
Writing Games - Rubber baby buggy bumpers
Writing games - Talk to yourself
Writing Games - Out of habit
High school english teachers have a lot to answer for.
Writing Games - Three's a crowd
Inception, ambiguity and literature
Writing games - Downsizing
Writing Games - Eavesdropping
Writing Games - Whose line is it anyway?
Writing Games - 'E's not here.
Writing Games - The unstoppable pen
Writing Games - Working backwards
Writing Games - Someone else's sentence
Writing Games - random objects.
One thing is sacred
Comedy isn't the easy way out
Surrealism
Happy doesn't mean sappy
The problem with expectations
Breaking your rules, redux
I see what you did there - retcons and retakes
Don't everybody all cry at once
Finding the pivot - how to see what your novel's really doing (part 5)
Tension in the highwire - how to see what your novel's really doing (part 4)
Cracks in the plot - how to see what your novel's really doing (part 3)
Loglines - How to see what your novel's really doing (part 2)
Novel analysis - how to see what your novel's really doing (part 1)
Lambs to the slaughter - sacrificial characters
And I foresee... a very predictable story
Hello, Mary Sue. My, what interesting eyes you have.
A series is not a three volume novel.
Unforgivable curses - the unimaginable monster
Will you make spectacle or substance?
Hey, I'm telling the story - multiple points-of-view
Ubiquitous white-man stories
Other people's rules for writing fiction
Plan or play?
How Not To Write A Novel #7 - That's not how people speak
Characters - tell me without telling me.
The decision you can't bear to make
How Not To Write A Novel #6 - it's a seasoning, not a food group
Writer's block is a lie
How Not To Write A Novel #5 - the plan that always works
How Not To Write A Novel #4 - secrets
How Not To Write A Novel #3 - foreshadowing
How Not To Write A Novel #2 - Info dumps
How Not To Write A Novel #1 - break your rules
How to write a novel - discipline
How to write a first draft
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