Something that hasn’t happened for awhile has happened recently. I’ve caught myself using the same word, or variations of the word, too often, i.e. some others, some people, sometimes. Maybe it’s still happening, just look at the 1st word in this post. I need to consult with a group of neurologists and figure out what…
Having taken a couple creative writing courses for elective credit, I’ve come away with a sense that when you’ve written something in the 1st person, people tend to think that you’ve actually experienced the things you’ve written about. This attitude is helped along when the protagonist of a famous novel is claimed to be a…
I’m turning into the main character of the book I’m writing. It’s actually quite frightening. He’s sixty-something years old and senile. I’ll have to be careful writing future chapters.
I don’t often boast, so I’ll boast now. I won the Daily News-Miner’s Holiday Story Contest. There are two things I should mention about this though: 1. I consider my entry crap. If I had submitted a story I was genuinely proud of, I can say for certain that I never would have won. In…
Articles in papers, magazines, and fiction/nonfiction creative works are full of attempts to be unique. I had a teacher once who told us that if you want to seriously consider a career in fiction writing, you should be confident that your work adds something that isn’t already available in the writing world. I think it’s…