Mike MJan 15, 20225 minUn-editing Joe Abercrombie: How The Heroes Might Have Looked If A Developing Writer Had Written ItHello. 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 MFeb 27, 20205 minAvoid 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 MJan 1, 20207 minScene and Summary – An Indispensable Internal Structure of Showing and TellingFictional stories, be they short, long, or somewhere in the middle, need internal structure to keep the reader engaged, and that...
Mike MMay 7, 20193 minSequence and Simultaneity – Know the DifferenceReading, like life, is mostly linear. Things happen one after another after another. I get up in the morning, take a dump, brush my teeth...