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October 31, 2011
Are you Showing too much?
Over on her excellent blog, The Elephant in the Writing Room, Sally Zigmond's been talking about Showing and Telling. And as well as flattering the Itch by linking to my own post about it, she makes a very good point...
October 27, 2011
POINT OF VIEW & NARRATORS 4: moving point of view and other stories
This is Part Four of a four-part series. Part One: the basics is here, Part Two: internal narrators is here, Part Three: external narrators is here. MOVING POINT OF VIEW: how to do it If you give your narrator access...
October 26, 2011
POINT OF VIEW & NARRATORS 3: external narrators
This is Part Three of a four-part series. Part One: the basics is here, and Part Two: internal narrators is here. EXTERNAL NARRATORS A narrator who isn't a character in the story will tell everything in third person, because as...
October 25, 2011
POINT OF VIEW & NARRATORS 2: internal narrators
This is Part Two of a four part post. Part One: the basics is here. INTERNAL NARRATORS (i): The character as narrator If your narrator is internal, a character-narrator, then the question of point of view is usually assumed to...
October 24, 2011
POINT OF VIEW & NARRATORS 1: the basics
Point of View seems to get more aspiring writers in more of a fuss than almost any other technical issue... with the inevitable result that there's also more nonsense talked about it, and more prescriptive "rules" bandied about, than almost...
October 19, 2011
How don't you do it?
One of the things about becoming an author is that people start asking you for opinions and advice. But I've sometimes heard an author saying or writing things about How to Write (as opposed to How I Write, which is...
October 13, 2011
The centipede, the shape-sorter and being Martina
My name is Emma, and I am a technique geek. Not that that's any surprise to anyone who's been reading this blog for more than about five minutes. But every now and again, when I've been unpicking/listing/analysing something about how...
October 3, 2011
Flashing, slipping and mixing things up
One of the most useful dicta (I won't say "rules" because there are no rules) I came across early in teaching myself to write was "start as near the end as possible". It was a propos short fiction, and of...
September 28, 2011
Now tweeting only from @emma_darwin
A quick note to say that if you follow this blog by way of Twitter, I'm consolidating my two personae by tweeting only from @emma_darwin. If you want to keep on getting a tweet when posts go up here on...
September 26, 2011
Jerusha Cowless, Agony Aunt: "I'm not a writer any more, I'm a failure."
Oh, Jerusha, I hardly dare write to you, because I'm not a proper writer, not any more. I don't belong on this blog, or the postgrad course I'm doing, or anywhere. Two years work on the novel, and it's a...
