Comments on: Writing Conventions/Cliches http://nixsight.net/2007/11/writing-conventionscliches/ the high road to nowhere Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://nixsight.net/2007/11/writing-conventionscliches/comment-page-1/#comment-1514 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:42:09 +0000 http://nixsight.net/?p=314#comment-1514 That book sounds essential, Chev. Thanks for sharing your research! That book sounds essential, Chev. Thanks for sharing your research!

]]> By: Chev http://nixsight.net/2007/11/writing-conventionscliches/comment-page-1/#comment-1513 Chev Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:08:08 +0000 http://nixsight.net/?p=314#comment-1513 I Googled the site based on an appendix in a book I just found - Intersections, a collection of ostensibly SF stories from published writers attending the Sycamore Hill writers' workshop in '94. Each story is followed by the comments made by the other writers during its writing and an afterword by the author detailing the creation and which critiques they felt were vaild or not. As a writing handbook, it is up there with On Writing for plain, simple and retrospectively obvious advice. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intersections-John-Van-Name-Kessel/dp/0312863845/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195740403&sr=1-1 I Googled the site based on an appendix in a book I just found – Intersections, a collection of ostensibly SF stories from published writers attending the Sycamore Hill writers’ workshop in ’94. Each story is followed by the comments made by the other writers during its writing and an afterword by the author detailing the creation and which critiques they felt were vaild or not. As a writing handbook, it is up there with On Writing for plain, simple and retrospectively obvious advice.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0312863845/?tag=nixsight-21

]]> By: Nicolas Papaconstantinou http://nixsight.net/2007/11/writing-conventionscliches/comment-page-1/#comment-1512 Nicolas Papaconstantinou Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:29:02 +0000 http://nixsight.net/?p=314#comment-1512 Oh, you big silly... It did feel a bit weird reading some of that, especially as bits of the struggling novel (managed exactly 1,000 words in Nanowrimo month so far!) may fall into some of those categories, but I think we're generally quite an inventive and original bunch at EW. Especially you, Rol, you big sideburned cutie you! Oh, you big silly…

It did feel a bit weird reading some of that, especially as bits of the struggling novel (managed exactly 1,000 words in Nanowrimo month so far!) may fall into some of those categories, but I think we’re generally quite an inventive and original bunch at EW.

Especially you, Rol, you big sideburned cutie you!

]]> By: Rol http://nixsight.net/2007/11/writing-conventionscliches/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 Rol Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:55:12 +0000 http://nixsight.net/?p=314#comment-1511 Well, I just threw away my keyboard... Plumbing ahoy! Well, I just threw away my keyboard…

Plumbing ahoy!

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