You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some people, somewhere, enjoy having friends and trusted colleagues lunge at them in the sudden blinding light of their own living room, but I don't think most of us do.
Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk … - Jincy Willett
Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk …
- Jincy Willett
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read. - Jincy Willett
Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some pe… - Jincy Willett
You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some pe…
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. - Jincy Willett
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. - Jincy Willett
That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the ficti… - Jincy Willett
Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the ficti…
Arithmetic is the death of story. - Jincy Willett
Arithmetic is the death of story.
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