5 comments Fall down seven times, stand up eight. 七転び八起き — Japanese Proverb
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5 comments Take your [favorite] thing you’ve written. Look at the first draft. List every change that turned A into B. Make that your rewrite checklist. — […]
How to Turbocharge Your Rewrite
3 comments Image: Ralph Richardson and Michèle Morgan as Baines and Julie in ‘The Fallen Idol’ (1948) What is “verisimilitude”? Verisimilitude means “seeming real or life-like”; it […]
David Hare: The third who walks beside you
7 comments John Thornton Williams explains a better way to “show don’t tell” how your characters are feeling: through indirection of image, or projecting their emotions onto […]
How to Add Emotional Depth to Your Writing
7 comments A major challenge of writing diverse characters is the burden of representation.
The challenges of writing diverse characters
“It was a fun, masochistic challenge to look at this 500-page book [Gone Girl: A Novel], and say, ‘Well, I’m going to have to lose […]
How Gillian Flynn adapted her novel “Gone Girl” to the ...
The story gets to be what the story wants to be–meaning, if I’m struggling with a story, it quite likely could be that I’m trying […]
Shari Green on what the story gets to be
Who are your heroes in your field? What would outdoing them look like? Are you aiming that high? How could you get there? Think of […]
Outdo your heroes
Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true […]