The title looked really barren for a second, and then I remembered that this was our first standalone readalong, so I normally have the series title as well. Anyway! It’s the 18th! Let’s get to it. First, the basics. Dream Thief is
Common Writing Mistakes: Starting in the Wrong Place
Trucking right along, squiders. (As an aside, Pinterest now allows you to create sub-boards, so I spent a lot of yesterday organizing my most problematic board, unhelpfully called “Your Pinterest Likes” and left over from when you could like pins.
Common Writing Mistakes: Pacing and Plot Flow
Back to it, squiders! Also, a reminder that we’ll discuss Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead next Thursday, if you’re planning on reading that along with me. (Have you been reading it? Once again we have a future where all the scientists
Star Trek Discovery, Mid-Season
Back in October, we talked a bit about Star Trek Discovery, which was fairly new at that point. And I think I spent most of the post complaining about CBS Access, actually. (We have managed to get several free months
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 2)
Sorry it’s a bit late, squiders! Also, I haven’t started wrapping Christmas presents yet and aaaaaahhhhhhhh So, last week we talked about common issues with Point of View, and today we’re going to be looking at a specific, sneaky issue
Library Book Sale Finds: The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Hey, look, squiders! I actually picked a scifi novel out of the bunch for once! (Well, in actuality, I was talking to my grandmother about Connie Willis and the Oxford time travel novels because I’d seen Connie at MileHiCon and
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 1)
Happy Thursday, squiders! I’m doing #SFFPit over on Twitter today, so if you follow me there I apologize for the amount of pitch tweets you may or may not be seeing. Before we get going, I just want to talk
Common Writing Mistakes: Tenses and Passive Voice
Hi, squiders! Today we’re going to talk about tenses and passive voice, since they tend to be related, and because this is a good segue from our grammatical issues into our storytelling issues. Tense in this case refers to the form
Common Writing Problems: Dependent Clauses
Good morning, Squiders! I think this will be the last of the bad grammar sections we do before we move onto different storytelling elements. To start off with, let’s review what a dependent clause is. A clause, according to Google’s
Common Writing Mistakes: Pronoun Confusion
Full confession, Squiders–this is something I had problems with for a LONG time. (Doing this today because I make no guarantees about Thursday.) What is pronoun confusion? Well, take a look at this example: Doug and Larry decide to go
