Category: Writing

There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Crimespace about “lean” or “muscular” prose, what it is and why it’s used. Gerald So has also weighed in on his own blog..

I think that this misses the point …

I have two hobbies: writing and programming. In both of these it’s very important to be able to track your revisions and recover previous versions. For the past year or so I have used the TortoiseSVN client …

Dave White wrote a post last week about voice. I recently had an interesting experience with voice and thought I’d share.

I completed the first draft of a new story, a story I was hoping would be a departure …

I’m in a writer’s group here in Fort Worth. Roughly half a dozen other writers belong, all pretty much around my level of skill. Everyone has opinions and the discussions tend to be lively.

About a week ago I …

Last week, as part of the Valentine’s Day mystery story project - they may as well have called it “Love and Death” - I published a story here on the site, called “The Last Time“. It’s actually a …