rae mariz on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub 3. ignore writing advice? I’ve learned that a lot of craft ...

#WritersCoffeeClub 3. ignore writing advice? I’ve learned that a lot of craft advice is not applicable to what I write. I don’t need to “raise the stakes” for “active protagonists” when I'm telling stories about communities from other-than-human perspectives. Many tips for “good writing” are biased toward this individualistic Western mode of "apolitical" storytelling. (lots of scare quotes there, I know, sorry) npub1gm2kwr9ycuu56rdejpw5mf2xzm9v3dry08d7g2zdadnr6mwks7msk9yyqv (npub1gm2…yyqv) unpacks a lot of this in Craft in the Real World:

https://lithub.com/25-essential-notes-on-craft-from-matthew-salesses/