Posts tagged fiction writing

With my voracious intake of social media, I can’t remember where I saw it, but someone was talking about how writers can’t be judgmental because of their need to write fully realized characters. This struck me because I’ve learned that I can be very judgmental as a person, which I’m working on, and I surely don’t want to be that way in my writing. There are certain attributes that make great writers. Most are curious, observant, readers, etc. I’m now adding non-judgmental to the list. Or as close as we can get to it, because who am I kidding? I’ll never be all the way there.

the craftAshley M. ColemanJanuary 21, 2024writing craft, writing career, fiction writingComment

the craft. what happens next?

In writing, there are formally trained writers and those that have read a lot and have the ability to extract what they have learned from reading and apply it to their own work. What do I mean by the latter? For instance, when reading, I noticed early on that in fiction stories, there would always be a beginning that introduced us to the character and their regular life and then something happened that would essentially start the story. Upon beginning to study more about writing, I learned the proper term for that was an inciting incident and that is how most stories begin.

the craftAshley M. ColemanNovember 20, 2022books, fiction writing, jewell parker rhodes