Archive for June, 2011
If you’ve ever read a how-to guide on storytelling, taken a creative writing course, or read a blog post about fiction, then you’ve probably heard the advice “Show, don’t tell.” More than likely, you’ve heard it hundreds of times, as it’s been parroted by countless writing gurus. In fact, this advice is repeated so often [...]
On Twitter today, I saw the hash tag #wordswehate flash by in my feed. @MrsPickle_, a dangerous woman who reportedly owns multiple shotguns and machetes, was responding to a tweet from @btchygirls, who run the Web site BIBS (Bitches in the Burbs), by saying that she hates the word “moist.” Other popular responses included “trousers,” [...]
In my post Tough Love for Would-Be Writers, I bitched in passing about hackneyed writing guides offering authors pat advice on how to produce film treatments rather than novels. (More on the latter complaint in my next post: The Case of Show v. Tell.) Despite my earlier rant, though, I do think there are tons [...]
