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Advice from the brilliant Margaret Atwood
When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion, dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood.It’s only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you’re telling it, to yourself or to someone else. ~ Margaret Atwood […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quick take: Skip the “took a”
Like many editors I’ve collected my own gaggle of words and phrases that I find annoying. I can become curmudgeonly if I spot certain words in a manuscript, especially when they’re abused and appear over and over. Now, I realize that taste and preference are highly subjective and chances are I might stand alone on […]
Read the rest of this entry »“As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker’s feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a […]
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Read the rest of this entry »And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can’t really share the enormity of our lives. ~Diane Ackerman
Read the rest of this entry »Quick Take: Search out the perfect objects to enhance storytelling
Consider weaving meaningful objects or possessions throughout your story. Then make certain these objects are repeated or reappear. In Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief there are books, the alphabet etched on the cellar walls, and the beautiful accordion. The books and alphabet represent a whole world that opens up to Liesel when she learns to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Brian Doyle on Voice & Truth
“I was learning a lot of times what people said was not at all what they meant….It was hard to learn all the languages spoken in our house. There was the loose limber American language that we all spoke, and then there was the riverine sinuous Irish language that the old people spoke when they […]
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