Category: Writing
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Eldritch Horrors
I was rewatching HBO’s Chernobyl, a five-part miniseries dramatizing the 1986 nuclear disaster, with my oldest son, who hadn’t seen it yet. If any scenario captures my idea of hell itself belching out of its bindings to vomit suffering on the earth, it’s a broken nuclear core. Last time I watched it, I was outlining sequels…
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9 Essential Elements of a Scene
Some scenes are easy to write. They just flow naturally from the scene before. They seem to pour out of your fingers.You know the kind of scene I mean. It’s easy to write from beginning to end, it has a natural arc, it has a natural conflict. I love writing scenes like that. I’m sure…