Boudica Marginalia

Reading, writing, and other things

Category: writing

  • Blogging Q&A

    Via From Sand to Glass. 1. If you blog anonymously, are you happy doing this? If you aren’t anonymous, do you wish you started out anonymously so that you could…


  • The problem of naming characters

    I submitted a short story to Electric Spec yesterday (keep your fingers crossed for me!) and one thing I had to do to get it ready was re-name all my…


  • Learning from reading

    A lot of the posts on this blog are about the books I’ve read and what I’m learning from them. But it would be true to say that I don’t…


  • I Write Like

    I Write Like is an hilarious widget which analyzes your writing and gives you a comparison to a famous author. I tried it a few times and my results were:…


  • Online Etymology Dictionary

    Under the category of things that I love is the Online Etymology Dictionary. It tells you where words come from and when they were first used. With words that have…


  • The ten books that mean the most to me

    Identify ten books that have meant the most to you over your reading lifetime. These are not necessarily great literature or important or best-selling, just the one’s that have stuck…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Hard Way

    Plot. I have issues with plot. I have a mental block when it comes to getting my characters from one big event to another via smaller events. Perhaps it’s just…


  • Reflections on alt.fiction 2010

    Wow, what a difference two years makes. I’ve just got back from alt.fiction 2010 and it was thought-provoking and inspiring. I went to alt.fiction 2008 and it was a fun…


  • Does lots of sex scenes mean bad books?

    I was reading ‘The “Tyranny of Sex” in the Saudi Novel over at MuslimahMediaWatch today and it got me thinking about sex and writing, or more specifically, writing sex scenes.…


  • Plotting with the Snowflake Method

    Yesterday I spent the day on the work-in-progress which now, for the first time ever, has an ending. It also has a new front-runner for the title. I’ve been writing…


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