Writing Links
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dreamer_easyI Will Not Read Your Fucking Script (Village Voice, 9 September 2009)
White Men Playing With Sticks: Iron Fist, Martial Arts and Respect (The Learned Fangirl, 28 February 2017). Starts with a smashing anecdote about Miyamoto Musashi.
Steven Moffat offers his top tips for writing Doctor Who and storytelling in general (BBC, 14 January 2016 )
Writing The Perfect Scene (Advanced Fiction Writing, n.d.). I forget who said of Strunk and White's Elements of Style that you don't follow its rules, you just re-read them every now and then as a reminder. Advice like this essay is comparable - it's always helpful to think very concretely about the words going onto the page. I found stuff that applied to the scene I'm currently writing.
Describing characters of color in writing (N.K. Jemisin, 11 April 2009).
Novelist error messages. If you only have time to follow one of these links, this is the one.
White Men Playing With Sticks: Iron Fist, Martial Arts and Respect (The Learned Fangirl, 28 February 2017). Starts with a smashing anecdote about Miyamoto Musashi.
Steven Moffat offers his top tips for writing Doctor Who and storytelling in general (BBC, 14 January 2016 )
Writing The Perfect Scene (Advanced Fiction Writing, n.d.). I forget who said of Strunk and White's Elements of Style that you don't follow its rules, you just re-read them every now and then as a reminder. Advice like this essay is comparable - it's always helpful to think very concretely about the words going onto the page. I found stuff that applied to the scene I'm currently writing.
Describing characters of color in writing (N.K. Jemisin, 11 April 2009).
Novelist error messages. If you only have time to follow one of these links, this is the one.
