Introduction

I have been writing fiction and poetry for about seven years now, and am just beginning to realize that while I am certainly not a bad writer, I’m also not a very good one either. This is not to say I haven’t tried to remedy the situation. I have taken creative writing courses in college, scoured the internet for any sort of lessons I can find, and gone to writing workshops (both real life and online) in order to have my work critiqued by others. In the end, I find myself unsatisfied. There have been the occasional veins of good, helpful information that I have found, but for the most part, here is what I have found:

• Countless numbers of bad prompts. (Use these objects in a story: a bathtub, Wisconsin, and a black magic marker.)
• Even more bad writing advice (Make a specific time and place for your writing!)
• References to novel manuals with more bad prompts and unhelpful writing advice, usually the same ones I can find for free online.

Yes, these are gross over generalizations. That doesn’t change the fact that good writing advice is hard to find, and usually buried beneath countless other pieces of unhelpful tips. On this site I will compile those pieces of advice that I do find helpful, as well as insights that have had about storycraft in general. For every person who reads this blog, I’m sure that the majority of posts here will not be helpful, just like everywhere else, but hopefully I can at least provide a place which is safe from the same old advice that might be helpful for one percent of the writing population. Instead, I present writing advice for the rest of us.