Moons ago, someone carved me a nickname into the sand. The tide came and swept my name away. That name was "Sputnitsa," which means "fellow traveler" in Russian.
Tag Archives: integrity
What does fiction owe reality, or what ought it adhere to, if anything?
A friend was asking me how many pages of my book my seemingly endless research will take up. It won’t take up too much. Maybe ten to fifteen pages total. But I need them to be accurate. I have a … Continue reading
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Tagged accuracy, analyzing fiction, challenges, fiction, historical fiction, history, integrity, laziness, research, whatnot, writing
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that magic feeling
Scenes don’t stand alone in books. They fit, they move, they’re living parts of the organism that is a book. Ideally. But for them to work like that requires vision and a sense of the larger story, of the whole. … Continue reading
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Tagged first drafts, integrity, scenes, writing, writing process
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Notes of a Scribbler 