12 Agents Looking for Your Coming-of-Age Books
To study how to craft a great third act, you have to look specifically at the endings that work for you. · ASSIGNMENT: If you haven’t done it already, stop now, and make your personal list of ten best endings.
Alexandra Sokoloff • Screenwriting Tricks for Authors (and Screenwriters!): STEALING HOLLYWOOD: Story Structure Secrets for Writing Your BEST Book
And it’s interesting that the writing I tend to think of as “good” is good because it’s mysterious. It tends to happen when I get out of the way—when I let it go a little bit, I surprise myself. I feel most pleased with my language when I don’t understand it completely.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Ask people close to you what you were obsessed with as a child (often you’ll continue to be fascinated with the same things as an adult). Don’t worry about coming up with exactly twelve (the exact number doesn’t matter, but try to come up with at least a few). Don’t worry about getting the list perfect (this is just a first pass, and it will always
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