Rewriting With The Surgical Drape Technique
…should you look at on each pass? It depends on the form you’re writing in, the state of your draft, and your goals for the rewrite. The key is to…
…should you look at on each pass? It depends on the form you’re writing in, the state of your draft, and your goals for the rewrite. The key is to…
…manage; and the more there is on the page, the easier it is to write. You would be correct if you guessed that the final stage after the treatment is…
…palettes, and character mood. What kind of specific location choice could convey the essence of the setting for your story? How do those choices reflect the mood of your main…
…use the word or discuss the emotion: use your visual writing skills to show-not-tell the reader what this scene is about. Longing, loss, grieving; the real vs. the imagined: there…
…2, that problem shows up on page 3 or maybe page 10 or your treatment, not page 55 of your screenplay or page 150 of your novel. It’s less intimidating…
…press psychological buttons, and generate clickthroughs for websites and their advertisers. I don’t know that they do that much for the writers that read them. Sure, the occasional list is…
…this structure. (It’s also a masterclass in well-structured comedy and worth studying.) 3.4 And if you write flash fiction… What’s the interesting part of the disruption for you? The actual…
“The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the idiograph of the story. Which is; the one, simple expression that can…
…will happen. And then, just before they get bored, you must surprise them and move the story in a new direction.” — Mogens Rukov, in an interview with Per Munch…