Writing

NDTS: Self-description

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It’s difficult to learn from excellent writing because excellent writing sucks you into the story and feels effortless and magical while you’re reading. Bad writing is an undervalued teaching tool. When you come across writing you hate, it screams at you and beats you about the head with its wrongness. If you systematically eliminate all […]

An Antidote to Writing Poison: Inciting Incidents

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I was just banned from a writing forum for insinuating explicitly stating its poobah was giving shitty writing advice, so I’m going to interrupt your regularly scheduled program for this special announcement. “The problem with your first page is there’s no inciting incident” is WRONG. Unless your goal is to write a terrible action movie,

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