How to avoid “filter” and “crutch words” in your writing
Hey everyone! Today we’re again talking some more about writing craft. There are just so many different topics in which we can improve as writers, and this is yet another topic. “Filter words” and “Crutch words” are just things that slow down your writing, but they’re a lot more than that. We’re discussing exactly what […]
Prologue: yay or nay?
One of the many things about writing craft is that it can take many different forms, and it can be about big questions, or about small questions, such as the dreaded prologue. You’ll see a lot of agents and writing people talking about how much they hate prologues. And then writers going “but I love […]
Editing: the Big Questions
Hey everyone! Today I’m going to talk a little bit more about the editing process, which can leave so many writers confused. Everyone does writing differently–some people edit as they write their first drafts–and others don’t, so you always have to find which method is perfect for you. What I’m going to say here might […]
Bad Representation is Bad Writing
This week a friend of mine came to talk to me about Christopher Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR. Although I thought that the making of the movie was beautiful (the shots! the planets! the score!), I couldn’t simply set this aside and say it was a good movie because of the way the female characters were treated. To […]