Then he was laying on the dance floor, the bright lights bouncing off the disco ball into his eyes, a big fat bully pinning him down.
Best part. if
Adagia
bugged out and made you lose all your content... and you weren't too pissed to be willing to rewrite it -- probably on a separate text editor -- this is the thing i'd start with.
George Saunders
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
storytelling
A common pitfall in
storytelling
is not choosing to tell a story that leaves the character changed forever. I was sitting outside feeling summer breeze under a tree when this thought came to me:
We fear changing our characters forever because we fear it in our own lives. We want to...
Just so in a story: we should always be pushing the new bead to the knot. If you know where a story is going, don’t hoard it. Make the story go there, now. But then what? What will you do next? You’ve surrendered your big reveal. Exactly.
Often, in our doubt that we have a real story to tell, we hold something back, fearing that we don’t have anything else. And this can be a form of trickery. Surrendering that thing is a leap of faith that forces the story to attention, saying to it, in effect, You have to do better than that, and now that I’ve denied you your trick, your first-order solution, I know that you will.
drewb
