rewriting

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How to Deep Edit 3 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged editing rewriting on July 28, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on July 28, 2015)

I spent a large part of Saturday rewriting a piece of flash fiction. (It’s work I love, so the time flies.) I wanted to share with […]

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Rewriting With The Surgical Drape Technique

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged rewriting on May 12, 2015 by Shaula Evans (updated on May 12, 2015)

When a character has surgery on TV, you know how the prep nurse always drapes them in sheets first so that only the area being […]

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How to Turbocharge Your Rewriting 5 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged rewriting on December 5, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on February 16, 2015)

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. — […]

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David Hare: How to make your scenes feel more real 3 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged BAFTA Guru screenwriting lecture David Hare definitions Graham Greene literary terms love scenes rewriting troubleshooting verisimilitude on December 4, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 15, 2014)

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 […]

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Projecting emotions 7 comments

This entry was posted in Writing and tagged avoiding cliche getting unstuck rewriting subtext tone troubleshooting on December 3, 2014 by Shaula Evans (updated on December 15, 2014)

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 […]

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