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Sherwood's Riffs




On the Writing Process

2008


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2005

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2004 and earlier

Reading Reactions from 2003-2004

Reading Reactions from 2001-2002

Reading Reactions from late 1990s-2000

Rereading: A Passion
On opening a much loved book

Patrick O'Brian
A Rambling Look at a Nineteen Novel
Story (Updated after #20)

Fantasy and Regency Romances
What I like to read and why

In Defense of Castles, Cloaks 'n' Cooks
What's the Allure? A CounterBlast to Diana Wynne Jones's A TOUGH GUIDE TO MAGIC

Non-Genre Reading
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, and other period faves


Diary of a Henchminion
A Spoof on Fantasy written 30 years ago, updated whenever I think of some new silliness to add

The Secret Diaries... (external site)
Fun Stuff from writer Beth Bernobich, for frustrated writers and editors

The Weight of the King
The "Problem" of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings for writers today

Sweating the Little Stuff
Things to watch for on the rewrite

Discussion of Point-of-View
Notes on narrator and camera eye

Chapter One, Page One
Here's me trying to find a way to understand openings.

A Spoof on the, er, "traditional" Fantasy I was writing as a teen
"Diary of a Henchminion"--first version written nearly 40 years ago

On Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy for Kids
Looking at the world from a child's point of view

Also visit the Young Adults area for more riffs about writing

Living the Parallel Life
Living with a window onto another world, aka The Long Project.

Here is the adaptation of Aristophanes' The Birds that I wrote for middle grade school drama students.