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Action Stories: The Plan Must Go Wrong
Christopher Nolan’s TENET, one of my favorite movies. There’s a heist planned, and before he executes it, the protagonist recites to his teammate all the details of what he will do. In reality, this is Nolan’s way of informing us, the audience. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writersofig #writingadvice #writingtips #thriller #fiction #shortstory #blog #blogging #blogger Read more
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There’s No Autopilot for Writing
The blank page. So mysterious, the state of wanting to write but having no vision yet, or having a vision but no words prepared. To me it seems writing is a very conscious process. There is no way to assign the task to the subconscious. Even when using cliches, which are overused and don’t make Read more
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The Pros and Perils of the Pantser
One thing I’ve learned recently, during my practice of writing one flash fiction every week, is that being a “pantser” comes with its own unique challenges. For those who don’t know, a pantser is a writer who begins a story without outlining it. They are the opposite of plotters, who always pre-plan their stories before Read more
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Subverting Expectations on The Visionary Level
Life Is Larger Than What We See In Our Heads If I said to you, “Look! It’s a trucker!” odds are, before you turned your head to look, your mind would conjure the image of a male. You’d be less likely to imagine a female tricler, or a trucker with vitaligo, or transgender trucker, even Read more
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The Visionary and The Writer
The Visionary. To me, a Visionary is someone who sees the entire picture at once and can intuit numerous, distinct ways of presenting it. As a writing professor in college put it, before you begin writing draft two of a story, you should reflect on the story within the story. Is such-and-such really a short Read more
The Fiction Writer 