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  • Musings on Fritz Leiber

    [CENTER][IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/mZSvK4BL/Lieber-Montage.png[/IMG][/CENTER] Here's a rather massive paragraph from the beginning of the book [B]Witches of the Mind[/B] by [B][I]Bruce Byfield[/I][/B], a critical assessment of the overall literary achievements of [B][I]Fritz Leiber[/I][/B]: [INDENT]"In [B]Fritz Leiber and Eyes[/B], the best effort to define an approach so far, [B][I]Justin Leiber[/I][/B] [COLOR=#0059b3](Fritz's son)[/COLOR] takes this diversity [COLOR=#0059b3](of his influences)[/COLOR] for granted. "Fritz simply likes to write a lot of different kinds of things," he...[/INDENT]
  • Writing From Life Experience

    Often when people hear you should write from your own life experience, they think of it on a very surface level—like if you played a lot of football you should write about football. In one sense this is what it means, or rather it's one aspect of it, but there's a much deeper, broader, and more universal aspect that this understanding misses. [I]This[/I] is the aspect I want to write about—not the external things you've done (play some sport, live in a particular region or neighborhood, work on a ranch, or wrangle poisonous snakes for instance), but your [I]inner[/I] experiences.Those are...
  • A way to explain the Dunning Kruger effect

    Put simply, [B]the Dunning Kruger effect[/B] says: [INDENT][SIZE=6][COLOR=#ff8000][B]Beginners are unable to see that their work isn't as good as the work of more skilled artists[/B]. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/INDENT] First to dispell a very common misunderstanding—it doesn't mean they're stupid. It just means they haven't learned certain things yet. I first ran up against this in drawing, and I think using some visual aids can help get the principle across clearly. One of the ways I've heard it put best is by drawing instructor [B][I]Robert Beverly Hale[/I][/B] in one of his excellent figure...
  • Getting all Emotional

    Almost a year ago I made this post: [LIST] [*][U][URL='https://www.writingforums.org/blogs/a-few-really-good-articles-on-deep-close-pov.66490/'][B]A few really good articles on Deep/Close POV[/B][/URL][/U] [/LIST] A recent post on the [I]First Three Sentences[/I] thread made me look back into it, and I read through some of the articles again. My opinion of deep POV changed several times as I learned about it, but eventually I realized it's one of those things that can be good or bad depending on how it's handled (isn't that everything related to writing?). From the second link I discovered...
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  • Military Youth Camp Days

    When I was a teenager I attended a week long military youth camp. There I learned a lot about myself. I learned that I sucked at guiding an airplane bomb run. (I bombed the wrong city. In theory, not practice.) I got to shoot a .22 long. A cartridge got stuck in the loading mechanism, I thought something was wrong so I raised my hand and the instructor came. He just used force to guide the cartridge into where it was supposed to be. I thought the damn thing would explode in my face if I used force. I hit all targets pretty well that day. (Now my eyesight is poor and the result would have...

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