Some people dismiss fantasy fiction. They see it as something that is not serious. It is not considered high literature. High literature does not deal with things that aren’t real, or high literature carries around specific ideas. But fantasy is a very unique type of story. It allows us to go into a different world, […]
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Have you ever seen someone paint a picture (Of course you have). When someone paints a picture, they do not pick up a bucket full of all types of paint and throw it at a canvas. It does not happen all at once. When a painter paints, he must put the paint on the canvas
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I think Ursula Le Guin. If you want to read a writer who knew her craft (RIP), you should read some Ursula Le Guin. Of all the writers I have ever read, I think she is in the top 10 (seriously). So, when she says something about writing, I think that people should perk up
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Cormac McCarthy has a piece of writing advice that says you should write everything, even scenes you are not going to use. Now, Cormac McCarthy is a good write, so we should look into his writing advice. On today’s episode of How to Write Good, we are going to talk about whether this piece of
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Kill your darlings. This is one of the most popular pieces of writing advice of all time. I don’t know why this specific piece of writing advice rose to the top out of the entire book Stephen King’s writing advice, but it is one of the biggest. Now, Stephen King does know how to write.
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This is a piece of life advice, but it is also something that is good to remember when you are writing: fall in love with learning. Benjerman Frankerlman once said that if you want to be remembered you either need to do something worth writing about or write something worth reading. Since we are not
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I have been talking about how logic relates to writing. If you haven’t checked out the last two episodes on this topic, I would suggest listening to those two before you listen to this one, because thinking about logic when you write involves the entire process rather than just one part (Or you can just
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