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April 25, 2022
Character Concept Picker – Creating Literary and Video-Game Characters
From Narrative Nods to Word Journey, I’ve made a lot of programs that one way or another revolve around words, writing, and fictional worlds. Most of them are available on the Home for Fiction Patreon page, but some are also freely available to all. Character Concept Picker is such an app. It’s open-source, free for […]
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April 18, 2022
Multiple Endings: a How-to Guide
Remember my post on narrative endings? I there argued that narrative endings and physical endings are not necessarily one and the same. In reality, there are more than one ways to end a novel. And having multiple endings is a great way to increase the affective impact of your narrative. So, what do we I […]
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April 11, 2022
“Turtles All the Way Down”: The Problem of Infinite Regress
Forget about the existence of God, life after death, the meaning of life. There is only one real question in philosophy – and no, with apologies to Albert Camus, it’s not about suicide. It’s the problem of infinite regress, particularly in a metaphysical framework. “Turtles all the way down” is a metaphor used to explicate […]
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April 4, 2022
Adapting to Your Audience In Writing: a Bad Idea
“Adapt to your audience” is a sentence I’ve seen used by many so-called writing advisors. It’s a bad idea to begin with, for any artistic context. But adapting to your audience in writing is a truly awful idea, for reasons we’ll examine. Let’s get some definitions out of the way first: What do we mean […]
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March 28, 2022
Mediocre Fiction: Why Is There so Much of It?
Mediocrity is one of the things that occupy much of my time – on the blog and otherwise. We’re surrounded by mediocrity, and there are clear, simple reasons for this, which I’ll talk about in this post. More importantly, for the topics of the blog, what concerns me is mediocre fiction. The whole concept is […]
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March 21, 2022
Forbidden Island JavaScript App: An Experiment in Creation
First of all, a necessary disclaimer: If you came here expecting to find a ready video game version of the popular board game, Forbidden Island, I’m afraid I’ll disappoint you. This post does show my efforts in creating a Forbidden Island JavaScript app, but I can’t share the program with you. I can’t even share […]
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March 14, 2022
What Is Anthropocentrism: Examples, Problems, Solutions
Many of us think they’re individually the center of the universe. The irony is, they might be right, but that’s a discussion for another day. The same concept in a wider context is called anthropocentrism. In simple terms, anthropocentrism is the assumption that humans are the most important entities in the universe. The problem is […]
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March 7, 2022
How to Get Writing Advice Successfully
This is quite the meta-post: I’ll be offering you advice on how to successfully get writing advice. More maddeningly, perhaps, I’ll be partly asking you to ignore writing advice – advice which you’d have to ignore in order… not to ignore it. There are no simple answers, sorry! Overall, what this little linguistic and conceptual […]
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February 28, 2022
How to Write Fantasy Fiction: Examples of Characters, Tropes, and Plots
As you might know, I don’t write genre fiction; I write literary fiction. My books – as you can see on the relevant page of the main site – are about “ordinary” people in “ordinary” circumstances (I let you interpret the quotation marks the way you want). However, my academic expertise is on nonrealist fictions: […]
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February 21, 2022
Southern Gothic Tropes: Meaning “Beyond the South”
The so-called “Southern Gothic” is a subcategory of the Gothic mode that nominally revolves around the American South – as in, the Southern US States. However, as we’ll see in this post, Southern Gothic tropes far exceed the strict topical confines of the American South. Indeed, understanding these Southern Gothic tropes can reveal hidden meaning […]
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