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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possib
from Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling by Maria Popova
Alex Dobrenko added 3mo ago