Cory Doctorow on “Writing in the Age of Distraction.
Joss Whedon‘s “Top 10 Writing Tips.”
And Maureen F. McHugh:
For a competent writer, the way they do these things is intuitive. I don’t tend to think about how much of the narrative is from the narrator and how much from the character. I’m not even aware that I’m making those decisions. Neither is the unpracticed writer. The difference is that after years of practice, I have a set of unconscious skills that tell me what is more likely to be successful. I know when it ‘feels right.’ For me, only after 10,000 hours could I actually start to think about a lot of the decisions I made to solve those problems. Before that, like learning to ride a bicycle, if I thought too much, I fell off. The prose got stiff, overly self-conscious, mannered in a bad way.
I’ve started using TK in my work – as long as I remember to search for it later, I’m good.