The Art of Restraint in Writing
Do you find yourself over-explaining emotions or situations in your writing? In both this blog and my next subscriber-only Monday Writing Motivation mailer, I look into the power of restraint [...]
Writing Secrets: Grand realisations – lesson from a master
Every now and again, a character has a realisation which changes everything. It hits him between the eyes and forces him to view things in a completely new light. Since […]
Monday Motivation: Walking the tightrope of too much or too little
It’s a delicate tightrope we walk. On the one hand, if we provide too much information, we run the risk of turning a suspenseful story into a ho-hum record of […]
Writing Secrets: It’s often the case – solving one problem creates another
Here’s a conundrum. One of our mentoring participants tried to solve one problem and, in the process, created another. As I mentioned last week, you should try to avoid long, […]
Monday Motivation: Write around a key dramatic development
Here’s another lesson from No Country for Old Men… When last we spoke (!) I described Lewellyn Moss’s flight from the implacable hand of Fate, Anton Chigurh. He eventually shakes […]
Monday Motivation: Balancing act
The challenge I posed a group of scribblers was to write a scene in which a trivial disagreement masks much deeper conflict between two characters. How to insinuate the presence […]
