- TTLY…: Vintage posts.
Who is ‘You?’
Tag: craft
Your Worldbuilding Bores Me When They Tell You to Do This
“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #3: Characterisation
In twenty-seven minutes (or your money back), you will read:
- 0. Preramble: What characterisation (and character arcs) mean;
- 1. Characterisation as… Structural Analysis: Walking across to the anthropologists’ aisle, to see what we can learn;
- 1½. *I move away from the keyboard to let Future Me edit*: Applying structural analysis in the classroom;
- 2. Characterisation as… Discovery: Fuck planning and shit – characters are vibes, baby;
- 3. Characterisation as… Meaningful Choices: OK, but how are you gonna make them different from everyone else?
- 3.1 Dialogue and Its Functions: Dialogue reveals change;
- 3.2 Changing the Font?: Exploring a Pratchettism in Jingo;
- 3.3 Point of View and Narration: Narrators have more to do with characterisation than you think;
- 3.4 Body Language and Actions: “What can the body say that speech would otherwise diminish?”
- 3.5 Thoughts: Keep it to yourself;
- 3.6 Appearances: I said, keep it to yourself;
- 3.7 The Other and Schismogenesis: Why look for the Other in the exotic? What’s stopping you from starting closer to home?
“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #2: Worldbuilding
Twenty beautiful minutes on:
- 1. Telling Details and Incluing: or, “Pulverising the Boulder of Exposition;”
- 2. Pellargonia: A cautionary tale of worldbuilding getting out of hand;
- 3. Knowing Your Noinos: When vegetables aren’t vegetables;
- 4. Where’s My Thirty Magic Systems, bm?: If everyone knows a spell for fire…
- TTLY: Old posts.
“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #1: Factfinding
My triumphant 28-minute return to blogging, and it concerns:
- 0. Preramble: On Pedagogy of the Oppressed;
- 1. Introduction to Factfinding: Who am I, and who are my students likely to be?;
- 2. Library of Babel and the Ur-Literature: What IS fantasy, anyway?;
- 3. Magic Kingdoms and Tremendous Trifles: Finding fantasy in the mundane;
- 4. Eggs-istential Problems (Or, “What’s the Fucking POINT??”): It’s the telepathy, stupid;
- 5. Finally! Finding Facts!
- TTLY: Vintage posts.
On Dialogue Rules
On Epistemic Anxiety and Craft
A little 9-minute something about:
- Epistemic anxiety: When you fear that there’s a lot more to how you know what you know… that you don’t know;
- Craft: Expectations of what your stories should contain that your audience will love