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Sweat the Technique: On Writing Process and Possibilities
A little look at the writing techniques of César Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Garielle Lutz, Zadie Smith, and others.
Sep 7
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Lincoln Michel
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Stitching Up the Creature; Or, the Horrors of Revision
Some recent links plus an update on how my horror novel revisions are going
Aug 10
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Lincoln Michel
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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
Jul 9
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Lincoln Michel
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Principles of Plotting Part III: Variation
The third entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
Jul 1
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Lincoln Michel
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There Are More than Five POVs
A little craft rant on points of view in fiction.
Jun 22
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Lincoln Michel
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The Ghostwriter in the Machine, LLM Author Psychosis, and Other Saturday Sundries
Some more AI thoughts and other odds and ends
Jun 6
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Lincoln Michel
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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
May 19
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Lincoln Michel
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The Principles of Plotting Part II: Oscillation
The second entry in a series on figuring out plot and applying it to your fiction
Apr 17
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Lincoln Michel
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What Memoir Scandals Tell Us about Two LLM Writing Scandals
On James Frey, Amy Griffin, Shy Girl, and LLM book reviews.
Mar 31
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Lincoln Michel
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The View from Inside: On Adding Interiority to Your Fiction
Plus, five years of Counter Craft and a subscription incentive
Mar 5
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Lincoln Michel
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What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
More thoughts on "TV brain prose" and why reading is, yes, useful for your writing.
Feb 22
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Lincoln Michel
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Surf's Up in Slop City
How should authors navigate a world with disappearing books coverage and a rising flood of AI slop books?
Feb 10
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Lincoln Michel
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