Good morning, squiders. Last week we discussed starting in the wrong place. But one can end a story in the wrong place as well. (To be fair, there are a lot of issues that have to do with what scenes
Common Writing Mistakes: Pacing and Plot Flow
Back to it, squiders! Also, a reminder that we’ll discuss Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead next Thursday, if you’re planning on reading that along with me. (Have you been reading it? Once again we have a future where all the scientists
A Look Back at 2017 and Thoughts on 2018
While I am not particularly one for resolutions, Squiders, I do find it helps to take a look at what one accomplished in the previous year and make vague plans moving forward. Here’s what I did, writing-wise, in 2017: I
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 1)
Happy Thursday, squiders! I’m doing #SFFPit over on Twitter today, so if you follow me there I apologize for the amount of pitch tweets you may or may not be seeing. Before we get going, I just want to talk
Common Writing Mistakes: Tenses and Passive Voice
Hi, squiders! Today we’re going to talk about tenses and passive voice, since they tend to be related, and because this is a good segue from our grammatical issues into our storytelling issues. Tense in this case refers to the form
Common Writing Problems: Dependent Clauses
Good morning, Squiders! I think this will be the last of the bad grammar sections we do before we move onto different storytelling elements. To start off with, let’s review what a dependent clause is. A clause, according to Google’s
Common Writing Mistakes: Pronoun Confusion
Full confession, Squiders–this is something I had problems with for a LONG time. (Doing this today because I make no guarantees about Thursday.) What is pronoun confusion? Well, take a look at this example: Doug and Larry decide to go
MileHiCon and Nanowrimo
I have survived the con! \o/ Barely. But I had a good time and made some new friends (yay!) and am now on a search for a refillable notebook cover. (Craig Griswold who was in the art show, on the
A Landsquid-y September
There’s been a distinct lack of landsquid on the blog lately, so here’s a landsquid on a laptop. I am very pleased to see the end of September here. It’s been a pretty draining month, aside from Iceland
Looking at the Next Month
Good morning, squiders! The next month is crazy busy around here, so I thought I’d give you a heads up on what to expect here at the blog during that time (from now until approximately mid-September). I’d like to do
