Writer
There are a lot of people who don’t believe in studying the ‘craft’ of writing. Writing is art, they say. You need to find your passion and let it flow through you. Don’t worry about structure or voice or character arcs. That only inhibits the freedom of your unique magic. I like to imagine these people say these things while …
Last September I joined Scribophile, an online writing community that specializes in peer review and critique. So here it is, almost a year later, and I thought I’d do a little update to the Scribophile review I posted then. At the moment, I’ve got the first twelve scenes of my current project up on Scrib, with a total of 63 …
How to be a tortured artist if you actually have a pretty good life: write something you love, then give it to someone else and ask them to tear it to pieces. I’ve talked about writing groups and critique before, and you know that I think peer feedback can be really useful at certain stages of your writing, but it …
I’ve been a member of www.fantasy-writers.org for a long time, but recently I signed up for another writing site, Scribophile. The community of writers there is much larger, and not so tightly focused (all genres are represented there). So far I’ve been really enjoying it.