David Alex Lamb

 I am suspending posting to this blog, having created a personal WordPress-based site at davidalexlamb.com . I copied over all my old posts,...

  I’ve been reading about writing for years, and am often puzzled by the differences in what different people tell you are essential, approa...

 I’ve said before that city-builders are one of my two favourite forms of video game. Unfortunately, sometimes they have “gotchas” that mak...

 As part of learning how to write, I have been reading Kate Wilhelm’s Storyteller , her reflections on 27 years of the Clarion Writers’ Work...

At this point in my growth as a writer I’m a plot-oriented “plantser,” combining some planning with some discovery writing. At the moment...

While I was researching my post on “ writing engaging characters ” I happened to skim my old post on “ articulating your character’s greate...

Since mid-March I’ve been doing a lot of planning for rewriting my 2018 NaNoWriMo speculative fiction mystery novelette; my previous res...