At the Surrey International Writers Conference, I taught a workshop called “Writing on the Fast Track” and one of the attendees, L.S. Taylor has typed up her very comprehensive notes on the class.
The subject on writing fast has come up a few times this year, especially if you’ve been following Magical Words, but I found the approach in this class to be different. (It being a class rather than just a post to read may have helped.) Author Mary Robinette Kowal (from The Intersection of Puppetry and Speculative Fiction notes I posted a few weeks back) had a great way of dissecting the subject, complete with exercises. (Bear with me. I left most of my attempts here.) The exercises were all about knowing your story. From there, we went on to discussing the actual art of writing faster.
via What I Learned Today: Writing on the Fast Track (SiWC 2011 Notes).
