Craft Work
A monthly newsletter on the craft of writing
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Monthly |
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| Issues | 21 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 15 days ago |
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Writers as Magicians
The topic of this month’s craftwork newsletter comes from the lovely Jodi Wilson, one of my cherished paid subscribers, whose own gorgeously introspective substack Practising Simplicity newsletters are received with joy every time they arri...
Main Character Energy
To flaw, or not to flaw. That is the question
My main character is the thing I am usually the clearest sense of when I begin a manuscript. I don’t necessarily know what they look like and I couldn’t necessarily describe their traits, but I...
Writing Sideways
The cage and the bird
Perhaps the thing I love most about narrative is its ability to deliver me to a completely unexpected place. I experience those moments in fiction powerfully, even physically. I think because I am constantly trying to...
Escalate or die
On making your reader actually care
One of my favourite pieces of dialogue from the HBO remake of GRRM’s Game of Thrones is the conversation between Cersei Lanister and Ned Stark, where Cersei says,
Why we have bones
Untangling structure in the novel
I recently taught a class on how to structure a novel and I always find it a difficult subject to teach. In fact, I think when people talk about structure, they’re often talking about a myriad of different...
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Gretchen Shirm is the author of Having Cried Wolf, Where the Light Falls and most recently The Crying Room. Her most recent novel is Out of the Woods.
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