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The Best Advice I Never Got
In total, I spent about a decade studying creative writing as an undergraduate and graduate student. But the most impactful piece of writing craft I learned was something I found on the internet years after I finished my degrees. And that piece of craft is called the beat sheet. The beat sheet is a screenwriting…
Keep readingThe first Rule of writing…
Back when I taught creative writing, I begin each semester with a paradox. “Over the next fifteen weeks,” I told my students, “we’re going to put into practice a set of rules that will elevate your fiction/poetry/non-fiction.” “And the first rule,” I added after a dramatic pause, “is that there are no rules about writing…
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