My grandma patiently waited as I swiped through photos on my phone to find a picture of my friend’s new baby. A proud ‘auntie’ in my own right, I was absorbed in the search when my grandma asked, “Why are there so many pictures of words?”…
Wunderworlds: using there-and-back-agains to craft intimacy with our characters
I had the feeling I was in a dream, part nightmare, part comedy…
– Ijon Tichy (Stanisław Lem, Peace on Earth)
Stories are fossils, Stephen King says, pre-existing things authors are granted the right to excavate. (You’ll find this on pg 188 of On Writing.)…
Writing Tools not Rules, or: Why You Don’t Always Have to Save a Damn Cat
Why writing rules are really just tools, and you don't always need to save the cat.