I wrote about Amanda Lee Koe's phenomenal SISTER SNAKE, (and couldn't stop myself from a light musing on fairy tales because you know me).
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/sister-snake-amanda-lee-koe-and-time-magic
These gargoyles aren’t worried about explaining themselves to a human reader; they’re just trying to survive.
I wrote about Tara Campbell's fantastic CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES and an opening that unsettles.
https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/city-dancing-gargoyles-and-decentering-humanity
Here's something amazing we've been working on in Lit!Commons:
Here's me writing about one of my favorite things again...
How do YOU sustain wonder (or horror) in your fiction?
I wrote about an interesting prologue. So let's talk about prologues!
Not whether you love them or hate them--but what they are uniquely able to do. What's the difference between a prologue and a first chapter? What is the function of a prologue? And what's the fun of it too? How do you think about whether to include one?
This time I wrote about JACKAL (by Erin E. Adams) and a really fun and unusual POV. It's an "I" that hides from you, knows way too much, and emerges in a deliciously creepy way.
What are your favorite strange POVs?
#WritingCommunity #WritingConversations #Writing #POV #Omniscient #FirstPerson #Narration #Jackal #ReadingLikeAWriter #Horror
This craft column is about Susie Yang's WHITE IVY and a whole lot of tools to make physical description alive and vibrant and even important to the story.
What are your favorite techniques for physical description of characters? And what makes you like a physical description when you read?
#WritingConversations #WritingCommunity #Bookstodon #PhysicalDescription #ReadingLikeAWriter #WhiteIvy #WritingCraft
I wrote this a while back about MONGRELS (by Stephan Graham Jones) and the sense of wonder, which is something I'm absurdly fascinated by.
How do we create--and hold!--such a fleeting sensation? I love thinking about it.
And I'd love to learn your ideas about other ways to play with it.
#WritingCommunity #ReadingLikeAWriter #TheLoft #WritersofMastodon #Bookstodon #WritingCraft
#StephenGrahamJones #WereWolves #horror #wonder
