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the art of writing
I’m open to writing about heavy things but want to deliver them gracefully.
Snippet form Kristoffer’s Year Review
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.
Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
Write with Open Access
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Haley Nahmanhaleynahman.substack.com
If you revise trying to answer every objection anyone has to your work, you will write something unobjectionable. Nothing is worse than unobjectionable fiction.
Elizabeth McCracken • A Long Game
Write in the tone of the body