Writing And Reflections
Mary CatelliEssays and rambles on aspects of writing from words to research. All free until I collect and publish them, whereupon they are available with a paid subscription.
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Odd One Out
One thing a series needs -- barring a short-story cycle that goes straight into a book1 -- is for you to give the individual parts titles.
This is one way to paint yourself into a corner very quickly, in a matter of two stories.
The usua...
Threads And Scenes
When juggling your threads1 in your story, one thing to keep an eye on is the scenes.
Ideally, of course, a scene would advance all the threads. It is rare, however, for one situation to advance the political struggles among the character...
Falsus In Uno, Falsus In Omnibus
It’s a legal axiom, not a statement of epistemology. “False in one, false in all” -- that a witness is demonstrably wrong in one statement casts doubt on everything that witness said.
Now, to drag it to a third field -- how does it apply t...
Strange Foods, Indeed
Your characters do not, normally, notice the food they eat, unless you give them reason, such as being a cook.
Or being a stranger. At one extreme, a character dumped into the fantasy world -- in his own character, or dumped into a charact...
Fantasy Foods
What can your characters eat?
Past price and sumptuary laws, past climate, past questions of harvest and crop failure -- what are the possibilities?
This can get -- complicated. Consider that the first edition of The Hobbit contained toma...
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