This is the first in a series of articles in which author Steven Erikson deconstructs, paragraph by paragraph, the excerpt, posted here last week, from his most recent novel Forge of Darkness.
Top 10 Sentence Slip-Ups
K.M. Weiland discusses how authors should learn to spot the most prevalent sentence slips-ups and know when to eliminate them from their stories.
Deconstructing Fiction (for Writers and Readers): Excerpt from Forge of Darkness
The following is an excerpt from Steven Erikson’s most recent novel, Forge of Darkness. Over the next several weeks, Erikson will carefully deconstruct this excerpt for the purpose of providing readers and writers with a view of the manner in which the elements of fiction are incorporated into the writing process.
Deconstructing Fiction (for Writers and Readers): Introduction
Steven Erikson, author of best-selling fantasy novels, provides in this introduction the rationale for the careful deconstruction, to be presented here over the following weeks, of an excerpt from his most recent work.
How to Figure Out the Worst Thing That Can Happen to Your Character
This week’s video examines the advice to “think of the worst thing that can happen to your character, then make it worse.”
Motivation-Reaction Units: Cracking the Code of Good Writing
What’s the secret to good prose? What makes it work—not just on the aesthetic level of vivid and poetic word choices, but on the deeper and ultimately more important level of functionality?
The Surprising Effect of Too Much Clarity in a Story
This week’s video warns against the temptation to eliminate all subtlety and ambiguity.
Excuse Me, Did You Misplace Your Modifier?
One of the most common, and to the careful reader, one of the most distracting, errors made by writers, even the so-called professionals, is the misplaced or “dangling” modifier.
Episodic Storytelling? Here’s Why
This week’s video offers some pointers for avoiding dead-end events in your stories.
The Portable Writing Teacher
Aspiring writers are fortunate: to find all the great teachers they need, and more, they just have to walk into their local library.
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