During a rewrite, I’m usually looking for the lines that explain too much.

Too much exposition is a killer.

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“I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.”

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And then I thought I lost my copy of Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginnings. And so I began a tour of my literary craft books. What, in the end, are such books for? #writingcommunity #literarycraft #EudoraWelty thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...

This breakdown of narrative tension is useful. Pressure works best when the character’s choices get narrower, not wider.

https://www.cincinnatireview.com/on-craft/narrative-tension-in-fiction/

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To capture a place like Bodmin Moor, you cannot just describe the visual. You must capture the geology, the history, and the soundscape. *Cornwall In Verse - Tide To Tor In Poetry* attempts to map the acoustic soul of Cornwall, not just its scenery.

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Andrew Sean Greer reveals how his diaries and a villa residency transformed into a novel, with index cards helping him uncover the plot and characters.

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That shift is everything. Dumas uses the crowd's fear to make me anxious, then uses the experts' eyes to make me ask a better question: "If the ship is fine, what's wrong?" He’s not just describing a scene; he’s wiring my curiosity. ....3/6

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The ship comes in "gloomy." The crowd feels a "foreboding." My brain instantly goes to storm, damage, disaster-a physical threat. But then, the sailors see it's being handled perfectly. So the threat isn't to the ship. It’s on the ship. 2/6
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Conveying music and dance in fiction demands precision and thematic consistency. How do you ensure your manuscript is polished to perfection? #CreativeWriting #LiteraryCraft