Getting Started
- On writing fiction: rules of thumb (an overview)
- The unbearable lightness of the blank page
- Essential traits for writers
- Story or plot: Finding your way
- The Trifecta of storytelling: The whole pie
Nuts and Bolts
- language, speech and dialogue
reading and writing male characters
- race, characterization, and historical fiction
- prompt: i see you
- pov: the unreliable narrator
- narrative voice and breaking through the fourth wall
- overheard at the post office
- on the subject of heroes and heroines
- letting the characters lead where they may
- historical v. political considerations
- give your readers some credit
- falling in love
- drew chial on characterization
- digging down to conflict
- dealing with a creepy character
- cinderella revisited: the prince speaks
- character names & keeping things straight
- believable heroes, and the construction thereof
- anachronistic heroes
The art and craft of writing sex scenes
This is a series of posts on various aspects of writing scenes with sexual content.
- Humor: Funny Sex
- Lyricism
- NC-17
- Less; More
- Where Things Go Wrong
- Where Things Go Wrong(er)
- A Kiss is Rarely Just a Kiss
- Reader Feedback: On Writing Sex Scenes
- Falling in Love
- Good Bad Sex
- More Good Bad Sex
- Reader Responses to Sex Scenes
- fools and angels treading: sensitive subjects in fiction
- G or PG or Nothing: Unhappy Readers
- Stream of (Sexual) Consciousness
- playfulness