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Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming A Freelance Writer:
Marisa Wikramanayake answers a few of the frequently asked questions about being a freelance writer.
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Watch “The true story of ‘true’ – Gina Cooke” on YouTube
This is a fantastic piece on etymology and the fascinating ways in which we have thought about ourselves and ideas and how we can trace all that by following the history of a word. Word nerds, geek out.
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Slowing down time (in writing and in film) by Aaron Sitze
Pacing is always important in any sort of storytelling. Too fast and your readers will miss something, too slow and they will fall asleep. But it is also about how and when to introduce suspense and when to keep things moving along quite steadily rather than making readers slog their way through. Here in this TED-Ed video, Aaron Sitze has some pointers on pacing. If you struggle with pacing, let me know in the comments.
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How to write descriptively by Nalo Hopkinson
In Sedition there is an ever present gecko that consistently turns up. I have no idea why it does when the actual leit motif, if any, is a plant mentioned throughout the book. But description is important in writing and here Nalo Hopkinson points out why doing it well matters: Do you have any issues with description in your writing? Leave a comment below if you do and let me know that I am not the only one! 🙂
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Watch “How to make your writing funnier – Cheri Steinkeller” and then let me know what you think.
I once spent an entire year while in high school writing what was my first attempt at a novel. It was very episodic and almost sit-com like because it was a) cheesy and b) I was working out how to write humour into scenes, from wit to slapstick. These days there are still a lot of things I have to learn about writing such as figuring out the best way to convey something I want to say when I see it in the way a character moves physically in my head and to turn that into words on a page that conjure up the same image. I think visually –…
