Writing Craft

The craft of writing - the art and skill of taking drudge and creating diamonds. Recognising when it isn't working, why it isn't working, and how it can be fixed; playing with pacing, theme, characterisation, narration, dialogue; squashing Mary-Sues, filling plot-holes and demolishing clichés.

	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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