I wrote in a previous post about how my blog has recently undergone an identity crisis. So far in my blog I have written mostly about writing. But my need to write about writing was starting to wind down as early as the Christmas holidays, and I wondered what I could focus on instead. I […]
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Words have no value in the wild. If you show your fictional masterpiece to a starving lion, it will still eat you. Confronted with the most scandalous comment by a politician, a cat will not care, nor will she rave over your oil painting.The reality of certain things is determined by a lot of people
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“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off.” – Anton Chekhov This rule of story writing, often quoted, is considered elementary. When I learned it in college, it was a revelation. I had always
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