lietame: in case you guys were wondering the reason i was on that site, it was to prove with hard data that if you have a story set in california and your whole cast is white you’re wrong it varies by area but as a local let me tell you, as a californian, seeing a…
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Read moreNotes from a Screenreader: Luggage Handling
nywift: Photo via Go Into the Story. Luggage handling is the awkward moment when characters have to take story time to account for their props. “Henderson! They’ve buried the bomb in the middle of the densest civilian population on the planet!” “Let’s go! I’ll pack the trunks in the jet.” This is an extreme example,…
Read moreIn novels, problems are strung together so that the solutions to one problem often generate the next problem. It is out of the frying pan and into the fire, out of the fire and into the water, out of the water and back in the frying pan, until the novel is done. Jerome Stern, Making Shapely…
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