How Not To Write

A.B. England recently concluded a three-part series on writing methods called, “Searching for a Method to Madness.” The essays were thought provoking and inspiring. Here are links to all three parts: 1, 2,3.
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Reading her series, I found myself examining my own technique and I realized I’d actually fallen into something [...]

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When I visited DarkCopy today, I found myself feeling nostalgic for green screens and line editors.
Of course, DarkCopy doesn’t duplicate the unique experience of writing with a line editor. It’s actually a pared down version of WriteRoom by Hog Bay Software.
Nearly every writing software package has a fullscreen mode these days. [...]

Waxy turned me onto this very cool site where a novel is told using Google Maps as the background. It’s really incredible even if my description is lacking…
Charles Cumming’s The 21 Steps:

The 21 Steps is told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world. Follow the trail by clicking [...]

I’m working on a story right now that focuses on painting. Describing paintings in fiction reminds me of something Steve Martin said:

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

A great writer could pull this off, but since I’m not W. Somerset Maugham, I was pleased to find that I could use Scrivener to help [...]

Sorry, I’m a die hard romantic.

See the original in the opera mafia’s Flickr collection.