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SIX OF THE BEST… cliched narrative devices
The actual title of the column is a bit longer. It’s about narrative devices that have become so cliche that you really can’t use them in your writing anymore. Which is frustrating.
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Tagged alias, buffy, chekhov's gun, cliche, cozy catastrophe, family drama, firefly, game of thrones, i am your father, idiot plot, it was all a dream, iZombie, little detail, narrative device, oh you like that character, pop-culture reference, sherlock holmes, spoiler alert, squid in the mouth, supernatural, the oa, turkey city lexicon, white room syndrome
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SIX OF THE WORST… ways you can ruin an otherwise-good idea for a genre fiction story
It’s NaNoWriMo time, when thousands of people try to bang out a 50,000-word novel in 30 days and then start submitting it to publishers without any editing or peer-critiquing, and then getting butthurt on the internet when their stories don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged chekhov's gun, critique group, gary-stu, genre fiction, gratuitous sex scenes, last resort weapons, limitations, mary-sue, nanowrimo, research, the last starfighter, the name of the wind, writing, writing group
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Josh Roseman: Writer, Voice Guy, Dad, Human 