Do you feel like stripping naked when you talk about a work-in-progress?
Some writers hate discussing unfinished projects and others love to show you everything. Over at Shaken & Stirred, the writer Gwenda Bond has been blogging her creative writing MFA experience, a new genre of web writing her readers call "writing porn."
I love picking up new tricks from other writers, and Bond carries her readers along for every stage of the editing. When she makes a writing discovery about changing tenses or plotting her new novel, we get a first hand peep at the results.
"[Changing tense] changes every line. It changes what a protagonist sees (and it makes transitions a tiny bit easier in my opinion) ... I should also add here that the tense thing wasn't even mentioned by my workshop, but was spurred by being able to come back to the story with fresh eyes."
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