Somewhere.... in Cushendall. Causeway Coast & Glens. Northern Ireland. - taken by Catherine Macauley
I'm writing a crime novel, but I'm stuck at 45,000 words. So I used AI to complete it. It didn't work. SO, I started from scratch - fed AI the plot, characters, dialogue, and 2,000 words of sample prose. It produced an 80,000-word commercial fiction novel in a weekend. But it's pure cheese!
Here's a superb essay on how to write. โYour attack sentence is a provoking sentence. You follow it with a series of provoking sentences...โ (Gordon Lish Notes, 15). Thank you, Jason Lucarelli shorturl.at/mosX7
"This is the sadness of the photograph: knowing, even as you look, it is not like this, though it was. You stand in the "was" of the present moment and you die a little with the photograph." -- Tess Gallagher, The Poem as Time Machine
Raymond Carver said - โIt's possible write about commonplace things... using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earrings - with immense, even startling power.โ ย So, I wrote an essay on it. shorturl.at/pFUX4
Reading Time: 6 minutes I first read Carver when I was in my early twenties. Back then I was drinking unsuccessfully, reading during bouts of sobriety. Short stories suited me because of my poor conce...
Here's an essay of mine on the absolute necessity of a good opening sentence. I wrote it when i was writer-in-residence at TSS Publishing. I still firmly believe that a PRECISE opening sentence is one of the most important things in short story writing. theshortstory.co.uk/crafting-sho...
