So, as a writer, running a writing blog, I will be one hundred million gazillion percent honest with saying, this blog will not have ai at all!
creative writer against generative ai; fork found in kitchen :/ (aka my statement on ai) [Read More]
There’s no Dorothy without the Land of Oz, no Pooh Bear without the Hundred Acre Woods, and there’s no story without a place to set it in. Maybe I’m getting a bit more crass as these progress, but setting is so so soooo important to a story. Worldbuilding especially. If you have a message you want to convey, whether that be about the world or some other reason, the world around your characters is crucial to their progression. [Read More]
I grew up HATING English classes. Hated silent reading time, hated the weekly trips to the school library to pick out a library book. I’d try to get around it, with comics and graphic novels, or just end up choosing the SHORTEST very below my reading level books. Up until the middle of elementary school, that’s just how things were, I was a math person and a visual artist. [Read More]
There is no story without someone telling it. Whether those characters are real people or fake ones (we’re gonna focus more on the fake ones because this is a creative-fiction piece) having an outlet in which a reader can get a glimpse into a story is SO important [Read More]
As I said in my last post, I am someone quick to fall to the whims of writer’s block. Faced with any myriad of writing issues, a creative block, a starting-this-shit block, or just anything else that interrupts my flow state, I find that there is one thing that can get me focused again. A blank notebook and a “fancy” pencil. [Read More]
Every written piece ever started with an idea. Reading a book, listening to music, observing the world around you; everything ever was inspired by something. When that idea bleeds into the margin of your notes, voice memos of your phone, or even a whole collection of sticky-notes itself, THAT’S where an idea that NEEDS to be written begins. [Read More]