Subtlety—Speaking the Real Truth
Subtlety allows readers to think something else is going on, something hiding, something faintly suggested.
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J.J. Richardson
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
Description: Up-close and Personal
Beginning writers must learn that their readers can’t visualize what the author sees and feels unless the author tells them.
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J.J. Richardson
- May 2, 2022
- 4 min
What's Wrong with Ideal Heroines?
If everything else is idealized in fiction, why can’t women be, also?
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J.J. Richardson
- Mar 13, 2022
- 5 min
The Ubiquitous I
A common problem beginning authors have when writing in first person is to overuse the word, “I.”
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J.J. Richardson
- Jun 30, 2021
- 5 min
Stop Asking Me Questions
It's your job as the author to answer questions, not the reader's.
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J.J. Richardson
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
How to Get My Characters to Act
Few articles are written about how to get fictional characters to act. This article explains how to do it.
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J.J. Richardson
- Jan 18, 2020
- 6 min
What is Good Fiction?
When your prose is effective, your readers will become someone else in a different time and place.
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J.J. Richardson
- Sep 20, 2016
- 5 min
What is Science Fiction?
If you asked fifty people if a story about monsters eating people's faces is science fiction, you will receive fifty yesses.
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J.J. Richardson
- Sep 12, 2016
- 5 min
The Meander
I must be careful because this topic strikes a nerve with the great literary fiction types, the self-proclaimed wise-above-all pedagogues.
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