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In the beginning… no, wait. Before the Beginning…
Here’s a conversation I’ve been having a lot lately: Friend, Fan or Fellow Writer, otherwise known as some lovely person who’s drawn the right conclusion from the lovely, oceantastic cover of Child of...
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Alyx Dellamonica: If All Your Characters Jumped Off a Bridge…
In looking at writing articles yesterday, I found a mention of Virginia Woolf having talked about finding ways to infuse contradictions into your characters...
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Alyx Dellamonica: Slivers of a Writing Life
I call myself a full-time writer. What would be more accurate (and it’s something I do sometimes say) is that I have a handful of interrelated part-time jobs. For two to four hours a day, I write...
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Alyx Dellamonica: Unhinging a Plot
A lot of plot – indeed almost all of plot – builds towards and turns on the moments when somebody changes their mind. Let’s take an action-adventure example, for example. Let’s think about Back to the...
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