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What Can We Learn From George Orwell About Not Overdoing the Worldbuilding?
Our very first impression is of hard work. Orwell hasn’t left a single phrase unchanged. Everything on the page has been reconsidered, rewritten, and — I will argue — improved.
Orwell, George, and Peter Hobley Davison. 1984. Nineteen eight...
What Can We Learn About Redrafting and Show, Don't Tell from Jane Austen?
With my other on-the-page examples (James, Orwell, Ballard, Carter), I will be picking out technical aspects of their drafting.
That is, I will be looking at the developing language of the marks they make on the page to convey with certain...
That Horrible Moment When You Have to Decide Which Version of a Book to Write
Hello again,
putting the whole of A Complete Guide to Point of View out here kind of did for me. (The heatwave hasn’t helped, either.)
The Guide is a more finished piece of writing than these entries usually are. And I moved on from it to...
A Complete Guide to Point of View
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Can You Use These POVs Better Than I Can?
In writing the Complete Guide to Point of View, I’ve sometimes been forced to come up with my own examples. That is, to write a story to demonstrate a particularly obscure POV.
Third Person Plural Past Tense (They went...).
I’m sure there...
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