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The Writing Art

Dealing with slings and arrows

February 13, 2010

A recent Twitter conversation started by Scott Roche about public critique, specifically for podcast novels got me thinking about critiques, flames and feedback. I replied to Scott that as an author you have to expect to get all three. So here’s my take on dealing with them as an author. The middle one Flames are [...]

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Tropes and bards

February 12, 2010

The wonderful DDog has just added  Chasing the Bard to TV Tropes website and it was a very interesting thing for me as the writer to read. A trope is a common pattern or theme and they have been around since humanity first decided that telling stories was a great idea. Some of the ones [...]

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