Structure is the key to narrative. These are the crucial questions any storyteller must answer: Where does it begin? Where does the beginning start to end and the middle begin? Where does the middle start to end and the end begin?
– Nora Ephron
Month: October 2015
haiku 376
all week
same walls
same hacking cough
Quotable 264
Writers often give advice they don’t follow to the letter themselves.
– Tobias Wolff
haiku 375
taco place –
dead bird
where a tree once stood
Quotable 263
Don’t overwrite. Avoid the redundant phrases, the distracting adjectives, the unnecessary adverbs. Beginners, especially, seem to think that writing fiction needs a special kind of flowery prose, completely unlike any sort of language one might encounter in day-to-day life. This is a misapprehension about how the effects of fiction are produced.
– Sarah Waters
haiku 374
more bullets
more tears
more gun sales