JCB's Ruminations on the Craft of Fiction

For about a year and a half I wrote a weekly "column" (of sorts) about the craft of fiction as part of a writing workshop Facebook group. I was forced to stop because of the needs of other work, but I wanted to collect some of those ruminations here on the website.

1. On "Show, Don't Tell" (May 21, 2020)

2. On the "Rules" of POV (May 28, 2020)

3. On Style Guides (June 4, 2020)

4. Writing is Mind Control (June 11, 2020)

5. On Voice (June 18, 2020)

6. On Plot and Character (June 25, 2020)

7. On the Philosophy of Craft (July 2, 2020)

8. On "Having a Hook" (July 9, 2020)

9. On Confusions about Passive Voice (July 16, 2020)

10. On Point of View in Fiction (July 23, 2020)

11. On Writing What You Know (July 30, 2020)

12. On Vision (August 6, 2020)

13. Heeding My Own Advice (August 13, 2020)

14. Why Write in Present Tense? (August 20, 2020)

15. How Show and Tell Intersects with POV (August 27, 2020)

(more to come as I continue to move entries over to this list.)