Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
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Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
It’s possible no one is as lonely as writers.
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
So whenever you want to undermine what’s being said, paraphrase it. If you want to negate or lessen a character, paraphrase what they say.
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
The goal is to create a chorus appropriate to the character. In a documentary about Andy Warhol, he said that the motto of his life had become “So what?”
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
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introduce the character as simple-minded, then have her or him let rip with a string of esoteric, complicated facts that shock the audience.
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
The job of the creative person is to recognize and express things for others. Some haven’t fully grasped their own feelings. Others lack the skill to communicate the feeling or idea. Still others lack the courage to express it.
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
Give people a model they can replicate and characters to emulate.
Chuck Palahniuk • Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different
Films can cut or dissolve or fade to. Comics simply move from panel to panel. But in prose, how do you resolve one aspect of the story and begin the next?