Other Poetry Pages
Writing and Poetry Blogs
- Genreality — A blog about writing genre fiction by several professional writers.
- Storyfix.com — Author Larry Brooks' writing site. I found his Story Structure series particularly helpful.
Blackwood's Writing Articles on Other Sites
Reference Articles in Blackwood's Journal
Old Germanic Poetic Forms
Other Accentual or Alliterative Poetry
Approaches to Writing
- Stomping on the Rules of Writing: Show, Don't Tell — The lasting power of H.P. Lovecraft's horror depends on his breaking modern rules of writing.B Begins a series.
- Stomping on the Rules of Writing: No Backstory — How "Show, Don't Tell" and "No Backstory" are related, and why Lovecraft's success depends on breaking both rules.
- Stomping on the Rules of Writing: Few Modifiers — How Lovecraft's writing depends on the use of adjectives for atmosphere and characterization.
- Showing, Telling, and Lovecraft's Horror — How "Show, Don't Tell" emphasizes the character's reactions, while Lovecraft's descriptions emphasize the entity feared.
- The Story Conceit, Then and Now — Old-fashioned and modern stories differ in what they purport to be, which affects choice of techniques. Older techniques are falsely deprecated as bad writing. Lovecraft, Hodgson, and Dunsany.
- Stomping
on the Rules of Writing: Tolkien 1— If Show Don't Tell is
really a rule of writing, how do you explain Tolkien's broad appeal? The
Lord of the Rings opening is pure telling.
- Stomping
on the Rules of Writing: Tolkien 2 — The first reason why
Tolkien's opening in The Lord of the Rings works: voice.
- Stomping
on the Rules of Writing: Tolkien 3— The second reason why
Tolkien's opening in The Lond of Rings works: story questions. The difference
between tell and tell-all.
- The
Rules of Writing and How They Grew 1— Groups love to make rules,
and writing is a subjective enough art to let them easily make bad ones.
- The
Rules of Writing and How They Grew 2— The Rulemakers' rejoinders,
and why I don't think they work.
Copyright 2009 by Meriall Blackwood.