A Week of Writing: 10/12/20 to 10/18/20

Another week of writerly doings. Here’s how I did.

Words to Write By

This week’s quote comes, once more, from Elmore Leonard.

“My characters have to talk, or they’re out. They audition in early scenes. If they can’t talk, they’re given less to do, or thrown out.”

-Elmore Leonard

I love this one, mostly because I write the same way. I tell my stories primarily with dialogue, and characters who don’t talk–or, you know, ones I can’t figure out how to make talk–fade into the background or even disap...