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Comments   |   Experience, fiction writing, Outer Orbit, Publication
Write Close To Home: 3 Venues for Taking Stories to Your Community

Write Close To Home: 3 Venues for Taking Stories to Your Community

Writing is almost always a solitary activity. Unless you’re working with a partner (a practice that’s probably most common among screenwriters) you’re scratching away on a notepad or tapping on a keyboard . . . all by your lonesome. So what happens to the story you just wrote alone? Where does it live? Who gets ...

Comments   |   Autism, Craft, story development
Getting Under My Skin: 3 Role-Play Techniques for Writers

Getting Under My Skin: 3 Role-Play Techniques for Writers

As I explored in another post, I have Asperger’s Syndrome. One of the characteristics of this alternative neurology is difficulty understanding others’ experiences and perspectives. Overall, I admit I have a pretty fixed view on things. Through careful, conscious attention, I practice empathy in conversation and casual relationships, but in sustained engagement or under stress, ...

Comments   |   Craft, Mythic Scribes
My Latest Post . . . at Mythic Scribes!

My Latest Post . . . at Mythic Scribes!

As many readers may know, I recently joined the article team at Mythic Scribes, one of the largest (if not the largest?) fantasy reader-writer communities on the internet. My post there today is called From Serviceable to Memorable: 5 Principles for Revising Dialogue that Delivers. In this article, I delve into favorite novels to find ...