I’m turning to a weekend of teaching from copy editing and\u00a0image gathering the Janis Joplin bio which is — TA DA! — now posted with a publication date on Amazon. Really. Go see. It’s so cool to see because, after five years, it’s going to happen.<\/p>\n
Back to teaching — anyhow, I’m focusing on\u00a0filtering time through character this weekend. I find that talking about summary or exposition, real time and slow time from the perspective of a primary character helps writers to keep their writerly voices off the page. When readers\u00a0hear the narrator, it can\u00a0distance them, as if\u00a0they’re in the back row of a theater. You want your\u00a0reader to feel close to the characters and to the story. The goal is to make readers feel they’re sitting first row, center stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Write well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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