Writing Technique Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

The Story Problem: Five Tips to Tame a Plot

Fiction Writing February 24, 2021

Lately I've been wrestling a ferocious shape-shifting beast of immense proportions that breathes fire, spits venom in my eyes and generally makes a nuisance...

Craggan Dhu: Time Will Tell, an Interview with Kay McKenzie Cooke

Fiction February 24, 2021

Kay McKenzie Cooke talks about her New Zealand novel Craggan Dhu

Six Pleasures of Reading

Fiction Writing May 28, 2020

Writers of fiction, it is often assumed, derive a solipsistic and almost wizardly pleasure in the mere act of creating worlds, in spending hours...

Solving the Mystery Plot

Detective Fiction February 24, 2021

Last June I decided to write a mystery novel based on a few lines in an obscure book called Witchcraft in the Valleys of...

Stuff that Works

Writing Technique February 24, 2021

About a month ago I was chatting with a friend about how to get better at writing. She’d recently had a frustrating experience with...

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Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy