The Queer and Sweary Writer’s Survival Guide
Finnian BurnettQueer and sweary insights on the writing life. Expect mental health adventures, craft of writing tips, and the occasional bout of me standing on my desk yelling about interiority.
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Scene Writing 101
One of the hardest concepts for emerging writers to grasp is the idea of a scene. It’s far easier, and frankly more fun, to just write long, rambling narratives where your character moves from point A to point B, where a lot of things happe...
Interiority How-To
Of course after I posted about interiority, someone messaged me to say, BUT HOW? Okay. Here’s how.
- Let the character’s thoughts contradict their words. Dialogue is the performance–it creates the version of the character they want the...
Character is Everything. Fight Me.
This is a long one and I apologize but some students in a recent character class of mine requested a written version so here goes.
You might think you love a book because of the plot, but trust me, if the reader doesn’t love or relate to...
My Writing Ritual is - I Write
Last year, I gathered with a bunch of writers at a conference. You know the kind of gathering where there’s either too much caffeine or too much wine, and several bowls of snacks and we’re all hyped up on too much human interaction and not...
You're Allowed to Rest
I hurt too much to write sometimes. Like, sitting at my desk while my one arthritic ankle throbs if just not working for me. I feel like there’s this collective idea that writing is mentally challenging but physically easy. Like, you can ju...
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