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on hiatus till April 23
I’ll be taking a break from blogging until April 23 to devote all my attention to a secret project :3 See you all then!
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light posts this week
I’ll be posting lightly this week because all my spare time last week went into working on my new Writers Of The Future submission before the deadline. See u tomorrow!
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Measurement in Secondary Worlds
I just wanted to throw out a link to a good article dealing with a question that plagues writers of secondary-world fantasies: how to deal with units of measurement? http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2012/03/measurement-questions-in-sff-and.html
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Tags: measurement
Flip the Story
Yesterday at SpecTechnique we looked at cases when a cliche is deformed or expanded. When you’re going into a deformed cliche, you think you’ve seen this line before. Then when the cliche flips around on you, you’re taken by surprise. This is a technique writers can use to breach their readers’ defenses. Today we’re leaving […]
Filed under: ACTION, CHARACTERIZATION, EXPOSITION, MICRO-MANAGEMENT, STRUCTURE, Uncategorized, VIEWPOINT, WORLDBUILDING, WRITING STYLE | 1 Comment
Tags: China Mieville, John Scalzi, Mary Gentle, Osamu Tezuka, Star Wars
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