Tomeworks Blog
Zombie Writing and How to Kill It
Today we’re going to discuss something much more horrible, much more frightening, something that will rise up from a dirty plot in the ground, grab your pacing by the legs, and drag it down, down, down until it too is a shambling mess, ambling mindlessly from one concept in your story to the next.
Zombie writing.
Roasting Writing Advice
Every time someone offers a piece for critique, there are a few items that seem to always make an appearance, regardless of whether or not they’re actually useful to the writer. Feedback needs to be applicable and it needs to be actionable, and sometimes, repeating a common slogan of writing like it’s immutable law isn’t either of those things. So today, we’re venting, we’re roasting, we’re chewing, and most importantly, we’re having fun by taking the piss out of pieces of common writing advice.