Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Oct 25 2010
Danger zone
Dear me. I've just begun, and then deleted, two different posts. Both of them sounded preachy, and if there's one thing I don't deserve to be in the writing department these days, it's preachy.
When writing fiction, the general idea would be to tell the story instead of preaching. When not writing fiction, objectivity is probably the best technique. Or is it? When I'm continually tempted to pontificate while telling a story I can call on the characters and subjugate my own beliefs to that of a narrator on a mission to get the story straight. But where's the story in a non-ficiton blog post? The answer may come to me later. It will probably end up being based on something that has nothing to do with blogs. How about you? Are you a writer with a preachment danger zone?
posted at: 20:47 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
Dear me. I've just begun, and then deleted, two different posts. Both of them sounded preachy, and if there's one thing I don't deserve to be in the writing department these days, it's preachy.
When writing fiction, the general idea would be to tell the story instead of preaching. When not writing fiction, objectivity is probably the best technique. Or is it? When I'm continually tempted to pontificate while telling a story I can call on the characters and subjugate my own beliefs to that of a narrator on a mission to get the story straight. But where's the story in a non-ficiton blog post? The answer may come to me later. It will probably end up being based on something that has nothing to do with blogs. How about you? Are you a writer with a preachment danger zone?
posted at: 20:47 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
