Essays: Craft

The nuts and bolts of writing, and especially of writing fantasy, are what I address here. This has nothing to do with selling one's work; that's for the Business group of essays. This is about how you produce that work in the first place.

Characterization
• Tough Women, and Facsimiles Thereof
• How I Write Female Characters
• Applying Heart to Sleeve
• Hearts and Sleeves, Round Two
• A Matter of Leverage

Story Structure
• Blood, Love, and Rhetoric
• The Use and Misuse of Prologues
• Love Triangulation
• Flash Fiction: Building an Arch

Grammar
• The Passive Voice
• Archaic Grammar

Cartography
• Introduction
• Watersheds
• Plate Tectonics

Other
• Warning: Contains Language
• The Problems of Sex and Death
• The Miniscript

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