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Principles of Plotting Part IV: Intersection and Redirection
The fourth entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
 • Lincoln Michel
Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation
The third entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
 • Lincoln Michel
There Are More than Five POVs
A little craft rant on points of view in fiction.
 • Lincoln Michel
The Ghostwriter in the Machine, LLM Author Psychosis, and Other Saturday Sundries
Some more AI thoughts and other odds and ends
 • Lincoln Michel
LLMs Are Revealing How Low the Bar Is (And Lowering It Even Further)
Quick thoughts on the Granta AI scandal and a bunch of other recent AI scandals
 • Lincoln Michel
The Principles of Plotting Part II: Oscillation
The second entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
 • Lincoln Michel
What Memoir Scandals Tell Us about Two LLM Writing Scandals
On James Frey, Amy Griffin, Shy Girl, and LLM book reviews.
 • Lincoln Michel
The View from Inside: On Adding Interiority to Your Fiction
Plus, five years of Counter Craft and a subscription incentive
 • Lincoln Michel
What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.
 • Lincoln Michel
Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
 • Lincoln Michel
Why Literature Needs a Punk Rock Mindset
The Washington Post shutting down its books coverage is a reminder that we have to do it ourselves
 • Lincoln Michel
Why "Plot" Isn't a Four-Letter Word: The Principles of Plotting Part I
On teaching yourself plotting and part one of an attempt to describe my "Principles of Plotting"
 • Lincoln Michel
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