Historiography
Oxford definition: (noun) the study of historical writing. In other words, historiography is the study of the history and methodology of...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 192 min
I could have been…
I could have been a writer, a professional athlete, a musician, a doctor, an actor, a chef, a business owner, a scientist, a teacher… If...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 175 min
How to write Part 9: The Final Frontier
The last step for any architectural writer is to begin to put even more meat into each scene. Like a painting, the scenes will be built...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 143 min
Be Kind. Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle
Most everywhere I look this quote or some variation of it is attributed to Plato or Philo or some other ancient Greek. Some sites...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 131 min
Find Time Where You Can
My wife and I are not at home right now. We are staying a few hundred miles away to help take care of family. Our habits are uprooted,...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 84 min
How to write part 8: Meat on them’ Bones.
To this point we have created scenes, characters, plots, outlines, and flow for our tale. The time has come to start adding the details....
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 65 min
Shrink
Nothing I say in this post is new. Nothing I manage to find as wisdom hasn’t been learned by millions of men and women who have come...
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kevinholochwostaut
Feb 14 min
The Skeleton, Part II
A reader DM’ed me and said “a linear order is not as important to me as a 'meaningful order.'" My question is as follows: Since for most...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 301 min
Beware “just…”
I don’t know if this is for readers, writers, motivation, and everyone in general. I have a lot to say in a short space about the word...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 256 min
How to Write Part 7: The Skeleton
Before we keep going, we need to take a moment to remember where we are in the process. In the previous six sections where we learned the...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 232 min
Reading Junk Food?
When are you reading too much junk food? I’m not sure. I thought about it when I was looking at the stack of books I have up in queue...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 203 min
Everything...
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” I...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 184 min
How to write Part 6: The Cutting Room Floor
The time has come to kill your precious work. You have spent this time generating ideas for a world you want to write in. You have...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 164 min
Return to The Doom Loop
A little while back we reviewed the reading algorithms doom loop. If you haven’t seen it take a look here or some context. I wanted to...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 141 min
New Short Story Release!
The Fall has come and gone. Civilization's great cities like crumbling citadels have begun leaning toward decay inevitable wherever such...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 114 min
How to write part 5: Themes
Theme or first cuts? I debated which order is considered “correct,” to talk about these in if we are trying to be formulaic. Theme, or...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 94 min
10 Reasons Writers Should Read
Today is a reminder to the writers among us, why you should read. This is not really a question. I know every writer knows they should...
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kevinholochwostaut
Jan 81 min
Why Did You Wait Until Tomorrow?
What was it that you wanted to get done? Why isn't it done? Was whatever you did instead more important? Are you happy it isn't done? Is...
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