As one week winds into another, once again, we bring you a review of all the things that have happened here at 2 Rules of Writing during the week of 31 January 2022 to 5 February 2022. A lot of this site is devoted to learning THINGS will make us better writers, but this week…
Category: A Piece of Our Minds
It’s Caturday and We Have Questions: Spoilers!
What constitutes a Spoiler: A Philosophical Dialogue It’s Caturday, and Big Cat and Little Cat have been discussing spoilers while they’re waiting for Middle Cat to get back from that spa with the new hair-barfing cleanse. And what they’re discussing, of course, is spoilers. It all started when Little Cat spoiled a scene in The…
Watch/Listen/Read
Erika Writes February is here already? I don’t know how that happened. I don’t know where this week has gone either. New Bells and Whistles on the Website With the weather fluctuating between “it’s cold enough to warn you about raining iguanas” and “It’s not anywhere near April so why does it feel that way,”…
Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law: Outlawing Openness
Conversations we Can’t Avoid There are a lot of conversations we have to have about things that are uncomfortable or difficult to talk about. We try and avoid things like sex, politics or religion–we label them as “out of bounds” and find less controversial things to talk about with people, but there are always going…
Caturday Questions: Books that Inspire
Some people read books for pleasure. Some for research. Some as a way of playing with children. Some a bit of all three. But many writers will read books that inspire them in their writing–whether they’re writing fanfic or not. Big Cat likes to read Shakespeare even when he’s writing short stories because those long…
Watch/Listen/Read: Banning Books and Other Concerns
Adam Writes: The Fragility of Mozart I’ve been playing that one Mozart piano sonata every young pianist learns when they take formal lessons (Sonata #16 in C major, K.545). Specifically the middle movement. I often have this problem with Mozart (more, I think, than other composers) where most of a piece is… fine. And then…
Language Pet-Peeves
This won’t be one of my more structured pieces. Let’s call it language pet peeves, but instead of my language pet-peeves, it’ll be YOUR pet-peeves that I, in turn, am peeved by. If you need a minute to reread that sentence, I’ll wait. Let’s dive into it, because there are some fun ones. Peeve the…
Celebrating Rejection
A Rejection Letter of My Very Own It seems there’s a theme going on right now at 2 Rules of Writing. Adam wrote about rejection letters last week. Erik Cheung also wrote about rejection letters last week. And now it’s my turn. Last week I got a rejection letter. I was expecting it, although strangely…
Sunday Summary
Welcome to the Sunday Summary for the week of 17 January 2022 to 22 January 2022. This has been an interesting week–our writers have talked about some difficult things: writing about trauma, rejection, and the details that make a story pop. The stories themselves are hopeful ones, even if the topics are challenging. And of…
It’s Caturday and We Have Questions
Frob and Widget are enjoying the mild Florida weather. All the moreso because they know that people elsewhere in the northern hemisphere are freezing their tails off. It’s the little things, after all, that give spice to this thing we call life. Just like when they hunt birds. They don’t necessarily want to catch them…