It’s been nearly a month since I started this blog chronicling the production of my novel Grim Curio. I haven’t spent much of that time talking about myself, and that’s been deliberate. But today I want to do something different and share the writing journey I’ve gone through over the last fifteen years. High School…Continue reading Fifteen Years A WriterA Short History of S.C. Barrus
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From Mind to Paper: Creating a Character
Above: Ginko from Mushi Shi. Writing is a process. Prose don’t appear on paper perfectly executed. First drafts are a spew of consciousness, a firehose of concepts splattered haphazardly with the wrong words in the wrong order, the wrong setting with the wrong details, the wrong character featuring the wrong motivation. But you have to…Continue reading From Mind to Paper: Creating a Character
How to become a better writer — Harness the power of The Critique Feedback Loop
Becoming a better writer takes more than just practice. It takes a process. In this post I’ll show you my process of how to become a better writer using The Critique Feedback Loop