Ephemeral Wisdom » The Toolbox
Characterisation
- Jo Walton on prose as characterisation
- Sarah Monette on Mary Sue, and her reformation
- Paperback Writer on character construction
- Elizabeth Bear on character development (via tombstones)
- Athenais' readers on naming characters
- Jo Walton responds to Athenais on naming characters
- Sarah Monette responds to Athenais on naming characters
- Avoiding "One True Motivation"
- Marissa Lingen on tough women vs hard women
- Suzette Hagin Elgin on sensory dominance, and sensory mode clash, part 1 (hearing/sight)
- Suzette Hagin Elgin on sensory dominance, and sensory mode clash, part 2 (touch)
- David Moles on male power
Prosecraft
- Elizabeth Bear on "writing pretty"
- Jo Walton on POV and prose as characterisation
- Elizabeth Bear on symbolism and the reader's 50%
- Elizabeth Bear on rewriting, and the perils of flow
- Elizabeth Bear on the writerly toolbox
- Ilona Gordon on passing time in novels
- Deanna Hoak on Zen and the Art of Copyediting
- Deanna Hoak on the copyediting process
- Deanna Hoak on hypercorrection
- Elizabeth Bear on cover versions, an allegory of Story vs Book
- Jim McDonald on novel-writing and model-building
- Wen Spencer on past tense, backstory, and reader's perception
- Paperback Writer on scene composition
- Elizabeth Bear on setting and voice
- Oracne on detail and specificity in historical fiction
- Sherwood Smith on detail and specificity
- Tobias Buckell on symbols and specificity
- Bear on voice and style and owning art
- Jodi Meadows on using all the muscles
- Deanna Hoak on compound words
- John Rodgers on writing action scenes
- Lydia Joyce on rhythm and flow, and finishing on a beat
- Alison Kent on rhythm and flow, and finishing on a beat
- Sherwood Smith on the tapestry of language
- Tobias Buckell on titles
- Sarah Monette on the Moss-Troll Problem
- Elizabeth Bear on flawed vs broken
- Nephele Tempest on voice
- Jane Espenson on removing dignity
- Real Art Won't Match Your Sofa
Structure / Plot
- Wen spencer on endless possibilities, and choosing between them
- Jim McDonald on novel-writing and playing chess
- Margo Lanagan (quoted) on choosing outsider viewpoints
- Greg Lawrence on POV/Protagonist/Narrative
- Ursula K. LeGuin (via Suzette Hagin Elgin) on human invention, and the shape of narrative
- Elizabeth Bear on point of view, omniscient and otherwise
- Sarah Monette's readers on Cicero's favourite rhetorical trick
- Sarah Monette on idea and length
- Elizabeth Bear on length and contents
- Jim McDonald on novel-writing and model-building
- Elizabeth Bear cites Jim's novels and models: art is not life
- Wen Spencer on past tense, backstory, and reader's perception
- Paperback Writer on scene composition
- Wen Spencer on choosing POV
- Sarah Monette on Short Stories vs Novels
- Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing Fiction
- Wen Spencer on the writer (and POV character) playing coy
- James Lincoln Warren on choices in storytelling
- Nancy Kress on flashbacks done right
- Real Art Won't Match Your Sofa
- Avoiding "One True Motivation"
- Kate Elliott on writing multi-layered, multi-volume plots
WorldBuilding
- Livejournal's limyaeel rants about the fantasy genre
- Chelsea Polk on aspects of urban development
- Laura Wattenberg on powerful female names in fiction
- Anna Tambour on ownership in fiction
- Not my city; theirs — Hannah Wolf Bowen on setting
- Sarah Monette on the Moss-Troll Problem
- Yoon Ha Lee on constructed languages (quick and dirty style)
Language
- Silly Latin
- Serious Latin
- English for Time Travellers (1: past)
- English for Time Travellers (2: Future)
- Brigham Young University's Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
- Sarah Monette's readers on Cicero's favourite rhetorical trick
Analysis
- Sarah Monette on the truth behind reader reactions
- Sarah Monette on literary analysis and specfic with its heart on its sleeve
- Margo Lanagan – what will last?
