Quite the Life (and all in Times New Roman 10pt!)
I wrote in Principles about my interview with Katie Koestner and Claire Kaplan.
That interview is live at Gel, Ink, and Rollerball.
For people who want to know the source material for The Augmented Man, The Settlement, Recovery Triptych, and much more of my work, here’s your chance.
I’m posting several excerpts over the coming days. Previous excerpts in order are:
Today’s excerpt shares how I use my experiences today.
Enjoy.
I wrote in Principles about my interview with Katie Koestner and Claire Kaplan.
That interview is live at Gel, Ink, and Rollerball.
For people who want to know the source material for The Augmented Man, The Settlement, Recovery Triptych, and much more of my work, here’s your chance.
I’m posting several excerpts over the coming days. Previous excerpts in order are:
Today’s excerpt deals with how the brain codes traumatic events into memory.
Enjoy.
I wrote in Principles about my interview with Katie Koestner and Claire Kaplan.
That interview is live at Gel, Ink, and Rollerball.
For people who want to know the source material for The Augmented Man, The Settlement, Recovery Triptych, and much more of my work, here’s your chance.
I’m posting several excerpts over the coming days. Previous excerpts in order are:
Today’s excerpt is covers from my birth to leaving home.
Enjoy.
I wrote in Principles about my interview with Katie Koestner and Claire Kaplan.
That interview is now live at Gel, Ink, and Rollerball.
For people who want to know the source material for The Augmented Man, The Settlement, Recovery Triptych, and much more of my work, here’s your chance.
I’ll be posting several excerpts over the coming days starting today with Katie’s intro to the episode.
Enjoy.
“If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don’t put it there.” – Anton Checkov
I keep running into editors and publishers wanting trigger warnings when submitting manuscripts.
The need for trigger warnings confuses me because it raises a question about storycrafting, specifically the aspect of storycrafting known as foreshadowing.
If I, as an author/storyteller/writer, have done my job, the reader won’t need a trigger warning because any story element requiring a warning will be warned of well ahead of its happening by previous events in the story itself. And don’t say “What if in the first scene…” because now you’re talking genre tropes, not storycrafting.
Does some event come out of nowhere without precedent? It doesn’t belong in the story, or the story needs major revision.
Examples Continue reading “Trigger Warnings – Did you forget to put the gun in Act I?”