Breaking the Habit: A Recovering Journalist’s Guide to Scene and Exposition
Don’t be afraid to slow down. Let key moments unfold naturally, using scene to build emotional tension rather than summarizing quickly with exposition
Are You Ready to Create a Scene?
Writers often have an instinct for language, a sense of when something feels off or flows naturally, but when it comes to the balance between telling and showing, or exposition and scene, that instinct can get tangled.
Exploring Writing Challenges with My Human Partner
Over the next posts, I’m going to share the work I’ve done with ChatGPT to explain scene versus exposition and showing versus telling. There will be essays, examples, and quizzes.
Seven Ways to Revive Your Story
Presenting Vivifica Fabulam, seven tools to bridge that bloody gap in the middle of your novel!
Claude, ChatDog & DALL-E, My New Best Work Friends
Some folks are nervous to say they are using AI in their projects. Is it cheating? Will I be seen as a hack?
Trapped by My Love (in the Cage of Her Heart)
I’m trapped by my love in the cage of her heart/
Feels like I’m playing a Schrödinger’s part/
She says she loves me, but it’s just a game/
Sometimes I think I’m going insane.