Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Apr 11 2013
Write me a river
We talk a lot about the flow of words and the natural course of a story, as though a tale moves like a neatly-defined Mississippi River, but the analogy works only if we look at the present-day flow. Beneath it all, the course of the Mississippi River has been reversed by earthquake activity, altered by geological erosion, littered with illegal dumping, sped up by run-off from torrential rains and slowed drastically by lack of rainfall. The telling of a tale should flow, but that doesn't mean that writers get to skip the work of managing the underlying causes of the story's course.
posted at: 07:56 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
We talk a lot about the flow of words and the natural course of a story, as though a tale moves like a neatly-defined Mississippi River, but the analogy works only if we look at the present-day flow. Beneath it all, the course of the Mississippi River has been reversed by earthquake activity, altered by geological erosion, littered with illegal dumping, sped up by run-off from torrential rains and slowed drastically by lack of rainfall. The telling of a tale should flow, but that doesn't mean that writers get to skip the work of managing the underlying causes of the story's course.
posted at: 07:56 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
