Face it. You will not work on the pla...
Tomorrow, I’m on the road again, and once again, I’m making lists. I’m working on my plan for the perfect packed bag. Last time I impressed myself by going a...
Articles
All of them
Links: Writerly Stuff. (Mostly.)
In the news this week: James Patterson named highest earning author; Jonathan Franzen on the cover of Time magazine; old-school critic Frank Kermode has died...
Hatching a fiction pattern: The Plot ...
About a hundred years ago I posted here about patterns in fiction. A quick recap: A pattern, then, is first a problem defined, and then a potential solut...
Linking a book together
Steph is in recovery after two punishing weeks of link trawling. So it’s my turn. Actually, I notice we’ve done nothing but links in recent weeks. I won’t bo...
Links: Sex, Lies and Photography
Another week flies by, and once again I’m wading through a torrential downpour of blog posts and articles in search of a recognisable trend. It̵...
Links we can fight about
Matt has been sending me links. We don’t always agree about… well, anything much, really, despite the fact that he’s allowed me to ...
Links from the other side
You may have noticed it has gone a little quiet around here in the last week or two. I’ve been in the States for my day job. That and various writin...
Pattern languages and fiction
In my last post I blathered about some similarities between software and fiction. Or something. If you made it through to the end you may have noticed ...