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mount_oregano ([personal profile] mount_oregano) wrote2010-01-08 05:53 pm
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Bad advice on how to write

Defenestration, an on-line humor magazine, has just published: “Seven(ish) Techniques for Unforgettable Characters,” by L. Gilbert Heedyn:
http://www.defenestrationmag.net/

Writers may find it not very self-helpful.

— Sue Burke

[identity profile] birdhousefrog.livejournal.com 2010-01-08 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Weird. Even weirder that Marshall just posted something vaguely similar on his blog.

[identity profile] mount-oregano.livejournal.com 2010-01-09 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Similar, but Marshall's less funny and more profound, I think. He explains why to many stories are bad because they're wrong.