So I thought I'd start this first post with a few muses on where I'm gonna try and steer this thing (If that 'gonna' just made you cringe, I'm planning on addressing colloquialisms in a month or so, so shake it off for now). Ideally, I plan on posting the various tips and tricks I've picked up over the years concerning this lovable, irrational past time called Creative Writing.
First and foremost, there will be no order to this deal because Creative Writing has no order, and it would be quite foolish to try and imbue anything like it on the subject. Organized Chaos--that's a term I can roll with.
Now, in a loosely organized, very chaotic fashion, I'll lay out the definite do's, the definite don'ts, and the murkier "acceptable in some instances, not all. Proceed with caution" topics that really remind us that Creative Writing is more of an abstract art than a logical one.
There is an absolutely outrageous array of genres out there (urban-romantic-horror fantasy, anyone?), so I'll aim for generalization. That's not to say I won't have posts tailored to some of the more major genres out there (because there are differences, clearly. Stephen King is as good as he is because he knows the market, but Fat Al will wear a latex suit before King writes a romance novel that clears the shelves for anything other than comedic entertainment).
With that, I bid you adieu, and in the immortal (and highly over-publicized) words of Morpheus, "You stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the Rabbit Hole goes."
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