We all like writing. So why, when I sit down to write, do I suddenly have 100 great reasons not to?
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Why you should read shitty writing.
Great writing can be a little too good.
You learn in the editing
On good days writing a great scene is effortless. Other times it’s like pulling ugly knives out of your urethra. Alas, neither of these helps you become a better writer.
Cliché: A writer’s guilty pleasure
Sometimes, in the dark of night, I’ll sneak downstairs. And opening the fridge in the kitchen, I’ll find my secret treasure. A cliché.
Dark – Anchoring an Audience
Dark: an off-beat mystery show, with a huge cast and a story spanning over a hundred years. How does it keep an audience?
Tier 2 – Prose
How you describe a room or a character is vital. The moment to moment descriptions of objects, surroundings, sounds, smells. These are the brush by which you paint your world
Grab your reader by the collar
How am I gonna put the book down after reading that?
Great Writing is like a Great Calzone
Whether it’s a written story or Italian cuisine, even the best ingredients need to be well layered
Fear
“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”
Ralph Keyes
Is your exposition good or bad?
What if I gave you a maxim you could use to identify good exposition?
A sentence that’d immediately tell you if your exposition is working or not…
The Fellowship Of Ink 