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Learning 2 Write – VIII

Repercussions This is a short one. A note to myself more than anything. I just ran across this: [He] knew from his limited reading on the subject that because of their longevity elves had built a society with a massive emphasis on conflict resolution. Something that made sense when he thought about it. For whenContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – VIII”

Learning 2 Write – V

Time This may be the hardest part about writing a novel – other than actually typing it out. Authors get this wrong a LOT. Time in novels must be “stretchy” simply due to the medium. As a counter example, movie scenes must run in real-time because we’re watching people do things – including talk toContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – V”

Learning 2 Write – III

Genre As an aside, I started numbering these, too, because it generates unique URLs that are under my control. Otherwise, they do get numbered, but it’s not my numbering scheme. There is no Roman Numeral for 0, so the Introduction must be I, which makes this III. There are two assumptions that must hold trueContinue reading “Learning 2 Write – III”