Well, last week was the Final Installment of SSCS 04: The Heart of the Gull-Queen’s Huntress. I hope you liked it! The next SSCS will start up in January. Although SSCS 05 was written using the same approach as all the other SSCS’s, the very first installment was actually written many years before the rest, as part of a writing game I was playing with a friend — years later I decided I just wasn’t done with this character, he’s…
Once again, I’ve just posted the last installment of my most recent SSCS, and now it’s time to chat a bit about the story. If you’ve been unsure about this one and waiting to read it (you can start with the first installment here), maybe this post will pique your curiosity enough to give it a try. Or, if you read along and have thoughts about what you just read, maybe this will stir them around a little. Either way,…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 34 of this year’s SSCS (the final installment!). If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… And yet this new guard walked in from outside. And spoke to her comrades about how they should bind and hold this new prisoner. …
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 33 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The last of the other people, the strange horde, flickered out behind Lot, and she turned then to Ki, a crawling blackness of unreality flickering around her…
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The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 32 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… They did not have time to protect the Gull Queen, or any within the mob who might be innocents carried along by the twisting of the binding…
This is a post about writing. Specifically, it is a post about how characters interact with the events of a story and how the two things inform each other. First, though, note the standard disclaimers about ‘writing advice’: Everybody writes differently. Everyone has different things that allow them to connect with the story that they are trying to tell and to then get it to manifest in words, and also different stories often require different approaches. Any ‘advice’ you might…
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