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when we talk about fiction we tend to use terms like theme, plot, character development, and structure. i’ve never as a writer found these useful…. These terms are placeholders and if they intimidate us and block us as they tend to do we might want to put them aside and try to find a more useful way to think about whatever it is they’re place-holding for.
— Nov 20, 2023 01:57PM
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“A higher standard of living, over-eating, and idleness develop the most insolent self conceit in Russian. Nikolai Ivanic, who when he was a petty official was afraid to have opinions of his own even if he kept them to himself, now uttered nothing but incontrovertible truths, and did so in the tone of a minister of state.”
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“In a good story, the writer makes energy in a beat, then transfers this energy cleanly to the next one (the energy is conserved). She does this, by being aware of the nature of the energy she’s made. In a bad story, or an early draft, the writer doesn’t fully understand the nature of the energy she’s made, and ignores or misuses it, and it dissipates.”
— Dec 31, 2023 07:11PM
