You know what that means, don’t you: show not tell? If you’ve just started writing, you might not. It means that, although OF COURSE you sometimes just need to say, “The path descended at a 45-degree angle,” sometimes it’s more effective to show things than…
Specifically, I got this beat sheet from Blake Snyder, of Save The Cat. If you haven’t read the blog dedicated to his theories, I highly recommend it. Even if you don’t write screenplays, what he has to say about writing is most useful. In my…
WRITING ANALYSIS CHECKLIST taken from Jack Bickham‘s TACTICAL ANALYSIS CHECKLIST originally published in Writer’s Digest but altered to reflect my own writing prejudices MA BACKGROUND Do your major characters seem to have sprung into the story from nowhere, or have you created a sense of…
