Category: craft

not sure how to embed the thread, so here’s the top one anyway, which leads to the rest: I wanna talk about ~historical accuracy in worldbuilding for a bit, particularly…

Strikes me that the reason a lot of novels start out so slowly is that they don’t take into account the version of the catalog copy on their back cover….

This makes me rethink and rethink and then reconsider: https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil  

Truly, I get raked across the copyediting coals for exactly this so, so often. And? It’s not just Indian. In CJ Box’s books, there’s a lot of lip-pointing, a lot…

This is a key sub-thing in a novel I just wrote: The Venus of Brassempouy is one of the earliest representations of the human face. It was sculpted in mammoth…

I might heretically add a tenth level for the semicolon clueless. But, yes, I’d be adding it from the eighth circle, I suppose. Which is a fitting fate for me,…