C.B. Lee's Blog, page 121

"I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot..."

“I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. I cannot be tossed about, or float gently, or mix with other people.”

- Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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"I want to take a moment to talk about the middle of things. The middle of things is less exciting..."

“I want to take a moment to talk about the middle of things. The middle of things is less exciting than the beginning and less dramatic than the end. Middles can seem humdrum. Say that your current relationship to writing has been like falling in love: we exalt falling in love as the finest of all possible experiences. But the reason people marry and stay married is that the middle, when it can be made to work, far outclasses the beginning. Ask people who have been happily married for a decad...

Okay, so I recently began writing a new story (after shamefully abandoning a previous story with over 30k words) and I'm a little stuck on something pretty trivial. There's a scene in which two characters are walking to a nearby location and talking to eac

Well first off, make a list of all of the information this scene delivers unto the reader.

For example,

The reader learns there is a great war brewing in the east. The reader learns that Jo has budding feelings for John. The reader learns that hunters frequently poach the woods, looking for…

Then ask yourself if all of this information really needs to be conveyed via dialogue. I’m gonna stick with those things for my scene to use as an example. It’s not gonna be the best writing in the world,...

Okay, so I recently began writing a new story (after shamefully abandoning a previous story with over 30k words) and I'm a little stuck on something pretty trivial. There's a scene in which two characters are walking to a nearby location and talking to eac

Well first off, make a list of all of the information this scene delivers unto the reader.

For example,

The reader learns there is a great war brewing in the east. The reader learns that Jo has budding feelings for John. The reader learns that hunters frequently poach the woods, looking for…

Then ask yourself if all of this information really needs to be conveyed via dialogue. I’m gonna stick with those things for my scene to use as an example. It’s not gonna be the best writing in the world,...

Okay, so I recently began writing a new story (after shamefully abandoning a previous story with over 30k words) and I'm a little stuck on something pretty trivial. There's a scene in which two characters are walking to a nearby location and talking to eac

Well first off, make a list of all of the information this scene delivers unto the reader.

For example,

The reader learns there is a great war brewing in the east. The reader learns that Jo has budding feelings for John. The reader learns that hunters frequently poach the woods, looking for…

Then ask yourself if all of this information really needs to be conveyed via dialogue. I’m gonna stick with those things for my scene to use as an example. It’s not gonna be the best writing in the world,...

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can you tell me more about the setting of seven tears at high tide? it looks so cool! is it based on a real place or is it a fictional one?

Hi there, anon! I’d love to talk about this with you. The fun thing about Seven Tears at High Tide is that the setting– is both!Seven Tears is set in the fictional town of Piedras Blancas, neighboring the real town of San Simeon.

From a writing perspective, deciding what kind of setting– real or fictional– to place your novel, is a key part of building your world. I wanted to place the heart of the story in a place that was my own imagining– a little seaside tourist town, with diners and beach...

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Falling in love is easy. But summer’s end is fast...

Falling in love is easy. But summer’s end is fast approaching, and a selkie must always return to the sea…

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