Month: February 2023

For many years, the standard commentary, from academia to the media, is that Hamlet is so troubled by the death of his father that he’s gone mad. Character Analysis of Hamlet: Psychological Disorders | Transmedial Shakespeare https://transmedialshakespeare.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/character-analysis-of-hamlet-psychological-disorders/All of which is bullshit analysis by people deeply embedded in the late twentieth and early twentyfirst century. They… Continue reading And now for something completely different: a defense of Hamlet

Continuing the last post, and just to make sure we’re all speaking about the same thing, let’s use this https://jerichowriters.com/character-driven-vs-plot-driven-stories/ to define our terms. Now… what bothers me about “character-driven” stories: that’s what most “lit-fic” has come to be. In the recent writing course I took, the instructor made a comment about “plot-driven stories were… Continue reading Character-driven, plot-driven, why not both?

I’m asking, because I’m coming to the realization that one reason I’ve nothing in print just now in short fiction is what I’m writing. I had three stories in the Grantville Gazette, shuttered since Eric Flint’s death. All the stories were, well, just that – stories of things happening to people, and how they handled… Continue reading What kind of stories do you want to read?