An erratic guide to consistent writing. Alternate Alternate is one of those unfortunate words which is very close in appearance to a word whose meaning is both more useful in most conversations and yet also whose own meaning is just close enough to be confusing. To alternate means to take turns repeatedly; it also can…
Write Like You Mean it 3
An erratic guide to consistent writing. Last week I started writing about Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind and why I had to stop reading it only to discover that Mythcreants had beaten me to it by months, drawn the same conclusions, stopped in the same place, and been much funnier about it than…
Write Like You Mean It 2
An erratic guide to consistent writing. Arcane Thanks to the fantasy authors following in the literary tradition of, er, Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks, arcane is assumed to be something to do with magic, chiefly magic done by wizards instead of by priests. In fact, arcane simply means, secret, unknown to most people. In that sense,…
Write Like You Mean It 1
An erratic guide to consistent writing. Good writing is easy to describe but almost impossible to define. A significant part of this dichotomy is to be found in what some writers call 'the window': is the point of writing to show a beautiful world beyond the window ('clear glass') or is it to display the…
Writing Worlds 