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Scenes that involve more than two characters can be unforgiving in a way that those with only one or two are not. This is amplified when multiple characters are thrown into chaos. The more characters and the greater the chaos,
What I’m going for is maximum clarity and the least amount of grit, and I felt that putting that in there added grit, so I just took it out. — Taylor This week show is part two of our line editing challenge. A long time listener,
This week show brings a fun and interesting challenge. A long time listener, who we’re calling Bob, sent in some material. But instead of offering corrections, this week Taylor just points out what can be corrected,
There was a lot of mental mapping, trying to piece together the puzzle and how it fit. And, the danger as a writer, when you’re doing that, is that you can overload the reader with too much information. —— Taylor In this episode,
“You inform the reader, at the place where it’s necessary for them to know this thing, to be on the same page, no pun intended.” — Taylor In this episode, we discuss some notes that Taylor provided to Steve on a new series he’s writing and she includes...
I do so much of this just on instinct, it’s sort of like a storyteller child that’s like how can I keep this exciting, how can I make this worse. —– Taylor The topic of this week’s show comes from David, who who asks: Hi,
I get so upset with myself, why? Why do I do this? I know it’s counter-productive, it is not getting me where I need to go in life. When I’m struggling with things that are important it’s the hardest. Why? Why do I do this? — Taylor In today’s show,
We closed TSS078, Tips on Filtering the Flood of Writing Advice Available to Authors with a request for the best and worst advice you’d ever received as an author. The results of that request were so interesting,
I won’t do that to my readers, the cheap, easy way out. Everything has to make sense, everything has to tie together, everything has to have an emotional component and impact because that is what makes a book captivating. — Taylor In this week’s show,
… earlier on in your career, you ask somebody for technical advice, or a question about a character, or anything like that, just because someone gives you the information, doesn’t mean you now have to need to change what you’re doing to follow it.