HeyJaredCraft by Vera Kurian
Thoughts on the craft of writing and publishing from a deeply analytical writer person
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Novel Incubator #2: What is the point of your book? (opens the original)
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CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing. This section will only last two weeks because I think it should take less time than last week’s. Hopefully you have come up with a premise that you would like to develop into a novel. Or maybe two and you need help deciding, and perhaps this week will help you. Some of you may have a more developed idea in your head of what you’d like to do and will find the following easier, and
Introducing... Novel Incubator! (opens the original)
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CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.Subscribe nowMy posts for the next few months are going to outline a program where, if you follow it, you will put yourself in a situation where everything has been set before you to make writing a novel actually easy. This is the equivalent of doing all the mise en place before cooking: we will be chopping the vegetables and gathering the obscure sauces and putting them into nea
How crafting a mystery is like an escape room (opens the original)
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CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.Subscribe nowLet’s take a break from all the fucking drama to talk about something fun! It should come to a surprise to exactly no one that I am a huge nerd for escape rooms. So much so that I am in a local club that goes them together, that I force my friends to do them whenever I’m traveling, and that I’m considering going on one of these tours where you meet up with o
UPDATE: I will be giving this away for free: I Built An App for Authors To Prove They Did Not Use AI To Write. (opens the original)
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August 4 update: I have been on vacation for the past week, but have been doing a lot of thinking based publishing events that have happened. The first was a hit piece written by the Atlantic accusing a romance novel, Daggermouth, as being written by AI. The author’s agent and publisher are standing behind the author, and it sounds like a lot of Romancelandia is pissed off, because the Atlantic’s author doesn’t seem to understand how a lot of things work in the Romance world. The second is a 2.5
Thematic content in The Odyssey (opens the original)
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CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.Subscribe nowForgive any nonsensical typos—I had another article lined up, but I thought this would be more timely, and I wanted to get this out before my vacation which I absolutely need to go pack for right this second. To be up front, this post will have spoilers for the movie The Odyssey, so maybe save this until after you’ve seen it (the part at th
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