Joanna Bourne

On this lovely afternoon I've been thinking about immortality ... not so much as a personal preference, but the way it's presented i...

I came across this in my reading.  The article considers, "How does the hero confront violence without becoming violent themself?...

I’ve been thinking about “The Setting as Protagonist.” That is, when setting acts in the story. When it has its own narrative. Fr'ins...

Since I took time off from all extraneous pursuits a month or so ago I've not only been getting my head together, I've found time to...

I'm thinking tonight about how characters deal with the acquisition and use of immense magical power. How do you write this? Ilona Andre...

--> tl:dr summary: Don’t say stuff twice. I don't know about you, but I do this all the time. My final editing is f...

  There are folks who get the words right the first time they lay them down. I am not one of those people. Think of it as shoot...

I wrote this elsewhere in response to somebody worrying they were not doing their plotting 'correctly'. I think they were worried ...

I was advising a young person I know about writing. (I continue to be amazed that kids aren't taught grammar anymore, but that's ...

... or, like, not   Punctuation Rule Breakage Pro or con? Elsewhere somebody talked about leaving out commas when he didn't like...