Audiences excuse much for the sake of entertainment. Good too for anyone who expects perfect reason is infuriated in life and disappointed with art. With the humility in traipsing on that line, I can’t stand a character who’s always right. Yes there must be conceits in the greatest stories, but I’ll concede where my weakness … Continue reading Always Right, Never Enjoyable
Category: Writing
Writing About Hobbies
I’ve written about incorporating your hobbies into your work but recently have pondered the opportunities in directly writing on those interests. In much the same fashion as what I’m doing here, writing about your passion is fun. I’ll extend that to any pursuit. If you want to be a writer, filmmaker, painter, actor, etc. start … Continue reading Writing About Hobbies
Recent Future, Near Past
A thought crossed my mind: When you’re only thinking about where your next meal is coming from, you can only think back to your last meal. I have never been in such a position, I won’t assert this is true, yet it cuts me. The higher thoughts I take for granted would likely evaporate in … Continue reading Recent Future, Near Past
As We Go Up, We Go Down
“I never liked this man.” “I know mom. You’ve said so many times.” “But look at his face. He’s the mouth of a fish on dry land.” My mother was complaining about Tucker Carson on the blinking TV in her hospital room. As she’d relayed, she didn’t like his “tactic” of hanging his mouth open … Continue reading As We Go Up, We Go Down
The Journal: A Narrative Squared Problem
The journal is the most distilled form of narration in fiction. In essence a character is jotting down their thoughts as they see fit. They are their only audience and are logging those thoughts for their own benefit. There is no outside influence to alter what they put onto the page. This can lead both … Continue reading The Journal: A Narrative Squared Problem
The Big Sell
I want to coin the term scene genre as a shorthand for any conversation using, “It’s that type of scene where…” The formula is so established that by describing one or two facets of the scene the average person can conjure multiple examples of similar scenes in movies, TV, books, etc. Just by this setup: … Continue reading The Big Sell
Action Scene Flow
There’re many ways to construct an action scene and wow an audience. Each providing its thrills chills, bright colors, and loud sounds. It’s a fun ride while you’re on it. Unfortunately much like most else in life there’re as many ways to get an action scene wrong as there are right. One of the fundamentals … Continue reading Action Scene Flow
Fanfic Milieu
I’ve previously shunned fanfiction for its restrictiveness on original creativity and I stand by that sentiment especially for new writers. That said I stumbled into a goofy exercise which may help some discover an important aspect of their own writing. Recently part five of Dracula Flow came out (if you don’t know what that is … Continue reading Fanfic Milieu
Solely Spoken
After rereading Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants I noticed a similarity in style to that story and what I’m currently writing. There’s a high bar of quality to match and it has me contemplating the techniques used and how else they can be applied. If you’ve never read the story go straight there. It’s four … Continue reading Solely Spoken
The Hook of an Idea
If you’ve ever interfaced with the world ideas have bubbled up in your head. A sensory stimulus hits and your desires follow. If you’ve ever engaged in storytelling then the world has breathed those head-scratching, earworm, thirst provokers into your internal monolog. But then there’s the question, “Why am I still fixated on this?” With … Continue reading The Hook of an Idea
Colin Klawans 