For Writers and Everyone Interested in Good Writing!

For writers and those who like to think about the process of writers, take a look at some of these articles on everything from writing using Artificial Intelligence to learning how to write about war--even if you aren't a veteran.

 

                          Above all, enjoy the winter and have a healthy, productive, and hopeful 2023!

 

                                                                                     Meredith Sue Willis

 

                                                                  

 

 

-- Nikolas Kozloff sends us another article on writing by AI--a pretty even-handed piece-- an interview of indie para-normal cozy writer Jennifer Lepp who sees the bad and the good.    

 

-- "What I Learned from 90 Queries!" by Eva Langston via Jane Friedman's blog.

 

-- Also, one of the best ways to learn writing is by reading. As always, I and others have lots of suggestions at Books for Readers, and Emily Temple has a good list of books she read in 2022--from the past!

 

-- Learn from the Victorians and their children: I just read Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. And if you haven't read it, maybe now is the time to read it or Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady. Or Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. So many big old books from the end of the nineteenth, early twentieth centuries.

 

-- Yiun Li in Lithub on what writers can learn from War and Peace.

 

-- Philip Klay on how to write about war.

 

-- An article with Writing Tips from young, British writers: Andrew O'Hagan, Esquire editor-at-large and author of books including Mayflies, The Illuminations and Our Fathers offers these:

 

1.    Look past your first idea.
2.    Your first thought is never your best thought. It's just your first.
3.    Most of your ideas are banal. Dig deeper.
4.    Go and find things out. Make a fetish of research. Most of the things worth hearing aren't already sitting in your head.
5.    Stop bothering people with your early drafts. Bother yourself with your early drafts.
6.    Work every day. It's not an amateur's game.

 

 

--Various types of third person in fiction. 

 

-- Check out my big collection of random Articles for Writers!