Do the Doing: An Actor Writes

Sage advice in the re-blog today—for all kinds of writers…

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A guest post from Cecile Callan:

“I’m noticing a pattern in your work, and it’s a problem,” my mentor said.

I was near the end of my third term of my fiction MFA when she put her finger on something happening in my writing whenever emotions grew strong. To show an intense scene’s rage, anger, or grief, I’d throw in more adjectives and adverbs, believing more description would create more emotion and show I re...

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Published on April 19, 2018 06:56
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