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Un-editing Joe Abercrombie: How The Heroes Might Have Looked If A Developing Writer Had Written It
Hello. Long time no see. Below I have taken an excerpt from The Heroes and added some very common writing ‘problems’ that I find while...
Mike M
Jan 15, 20225 min read


Avoid Clichés (Like the uh ... Plague).
Okay, writing friends, you’d better set your jaw for this one because it might just make your heart pound in your chest, your blood boil,...
Mike M
Feb 27, 20205 min read


Scene and Summary – An Indispensable Internal Structure of Showing and Telling
Fictional stories, be they short, long, or somewhere in the middle, need internal structure to keep the reader engaged, and that...
Mike M
Jan 1, 20207 min read
Sequence and Simultaneity – Know the Difference
Reading, like life, is mostly linear. Things happen one after another after another. I get up in the morning, take a dump, brush my teeth...
Mike M
May 7, 20193 min read
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