Tag: writing advice
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Most useful advice on pitching I’ve heard in a long time—
Along with Shonda Rhimes‘ advice to pitch more about the audience reaction rather than the plot and Carmine Gallo‘s concept of “The Message Map,” this passing comment from Inside Out screenwriter Meg LeFauve was so on-point. Way to re-cast a habitually dreary obligation into a potential for fun and discovery. You can listen to the…
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“Great writing cannot be created without risk”
Preach Johnny Shaw! Great writing cannot be created without risk. Originality is hard, because it is risky. By definition, if you are creating something new, you are in uncharted territory. When you are attempting to do something original, you are more likely to fail. However, the attempt itself is success. Because when it works, you’ve…
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What is “good” writing?
So. What is good writing? I love this question because it’s super simple and impossibly complex. The simple answer is that good writing communicates information in a pleasing manner according to the conventions of a social situation. Now whatever situation you find yourself – at home, at work, at school – chances are your audience…
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I suspect that any vital creative process somehow involves arranging things so that intuition is given pride of place. The individual writer’s “craft” might be understood, then, as the process of conspiring to work oneself into the necessary state of mystification, such that one is deferring to the innate energy of the story, rather than overriding…