George Saunders on REVISION and CAUSALITY
Word for word, this is the most insightful book on writing I’ve found.
7 of my favorite ideas from it:
1. Story as a Transfer of Energy
“We might think of a story as a system for the transfer of energy. Energy, hopefully, gets made in the early pages and the... See more
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.