
Close readings of speculative fiction, from sentence-level craft breakdowns to deep-dives into themes like language, meaning, and the unknown. Showing how these techniques work and how they can be applied in practice.
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What gives meaning to a text? The author or the reader? Or perhaps neither in isolation, because we do not exist in isolation. Let's chat about the death of the author, and intentionalism.
"Death of the author!" some readers proclaim—ironi...
The Man in the High Castle is a philosophical, social sci-fi take on WW2 alternate history, written during the Cold War and permeated with Philip K. Dick’s abiding preoccupation with what is real and what is fiction—or, in this case, how we...
From the basic definitions of alliteration and assonance to complex examples that combine these techniques to create passages where the prose itself establishes mood.
Rhythm is not just pertinent to poetry. Prose benefits from it just as m...
We seldom observe others as a list of neutral facts, but instead seize on a few memorable details and attach meaning to them. This is how memorable descriptions are written.
Character descriptions are a contentious topic.
There is no piece of writing advice more frequently repeated than "show, don't tell."
If you've ever searched for an explanation of it, you have probably encountered endless articles mentioning the advice itself, yet with surprisingly litt...
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Close readings of speculative fiction, from sentence-level craft breakdowns to deep dives into themes like language, meaning, and the unknown. Showing how it works and how to use those techniques yourself. Publishing weekly on Wednesdays.
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