Throughout my writing tenure I’ve focused more on characters than places. Often that’s to the benefit of the stories I write but some stories call for an in-depth, sensical universe. Rarely a universe but at least a lived-in town. Invariably with my chosen focus what brainpower I expend on settings hit a cookie cutter problem. … Continue reading Setting-Narrative Symbiosis
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Falling Action: Avoid the Slump
You can’t race up a hill forever, eventually you’ll run out of breath. For this reason story structure demands a dynamic switch between moments of greater emphasis known as rising action and those of lesser emphasis known as falling action. For shorter stories it’s possible to only have rising actions from the introduction to the … Continue reading Falling Action: Avoid the Slump
Multiple Choice Prose
Deciding On That One Tough Line
Numbed Apathy for the Red Sparrow Trilogy
I’ve been plugging my way through the Red Sparrow trilogy by Jason Mathews and now I’m at the last book — boy is that apparent. It reads like a last book. Like he’s run out of ways to convey his story. And before I start trashing another author from my glass house, my tiny, poorly … Continue reading Numbed Apathy for the Red Sparrow Trilogy
Colin Klawans 