Question Hour Ends!
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katasutra asks:
"How are you celebrating Int'l Women's Day?
What's the best bit of writing advice you ever received?"
I celebrated International Women's Day by being an international woman.
The best bit of writing advice I ever received was from Richard Kadrey at Clarion. It's not the kind of advice that fits well in a quotable aphorism, though. We talked about plot, and the mechanics of plot (b/c plot is a mechanical thing, like an engine), and raising the stakes, and stuff like that, and he walked me through some hypothetical examples using a story I'd written for the workshop. And it all made sense, and I walked away from our conference with a new tool and the know-how to use it, and it works. I Got Plot.
katasutra asks:"How are you celebrating Int'l Women's Day?
What's the best bit of writing advice you ever received?"
I celebrated International Women's Day by being an international woman.
The best bit of writing advice I ever received was from Richard Kadrey at Clarion. It's not the kind of advice that fits well in a quotable aphorism, though. We talked about plot, and the mechanics of plot (b/c plot is a mechanical thing, like an engine), and raising the stakes, and stuff like that, and he walked me through some hypothetical examples using a story I'd written for the workshop. And it all made sense, and I walked away from our conference with a new tool and the know-how to use it, and it works. I Got Plot.
