Proclivity - definition: natural or habitual inclination or tendency What is your natural or habitual tendency when writing? As I have mentioned before, my tendency in writing is free flow - it is how my creativity manifests itself. Given minutes or hours, I will...
Cede - definition: to give in, yield or formally surrender to another As writers should we surrender to our muse? I have found, in my experience, that surrendering to my muse has enabled me to accomplish large quantities of narrative. Whole chapters have formed with...
Ruminate - definition: 1) to chew the cud, as a cow does 2) to think over and over again : ponder Is it counter productive to ruminate over a story idea? Are we in danger of over thinking the story, it's plot and characters? Out lines are one thing but can we lose the...
Igneous - definition: formed from fire; especially said of rock formed from fiery magma Now it might seem that this is a tenuous link to Tracey's post on blog planning but bear with me. Our ideas for stories and blog subjects are igneous. In that, a spark of an idea...
Revising, editing, re-reading, additions, discrepancies, continuity – these are skills I am becoming familiar with. As a reader, I enjoyed being immersed in a story, there was never any thought as to how it was created. Now I have even more respect for any writer or...