Category: Technicalities

  • You Erase More Than You Draw

    My friend Frank told me he heard some excellent advise on writing from an art instructor. Advising students on drawing, the instructor said, “you erase…

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  • Getting Into Character

    Getting into character is a theater term. It’s the effort an actor makes to embody the part they are playing—well beyond the script and the…

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  • Define Done

    It's been said many times: a writer never finishes a piece of writing, he just stops working on it. This is true. The risk is…

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  • When Writing Upstages Story

    Upstage is a theater term. This is when one actor over-acts and pulls the attention of the audience to himself——regardless of the intended focus of…

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  • Charismatic Characters

    What I am offering here is not mine. It is Charles Baxter's.* I am bringing it here because it was an epiphany for me (or…

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