Tricks of the Trade

S16E9 – Sharing the Spotlight: Including Victories for Secondary Characters

The glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters. – Tony Hoagland

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S16 Bonus – Punctuation and Paragraphing

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. – Terry Pratchett

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S15E8 – Pet the Dog: Moments to Humanize Characters

I must be cruel, only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. – William Shakespeare

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S16E7 – Yes, But…

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. – Oscar Wilde

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S16E6 – Throw in an Obstacle

Whatever these forces are that make people do dumb things, they are powerful, they are often invisible, and they lurk even in the best of environments. – Ed Catmull

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S16E5 – Make it Small

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. – Bruce Feiler

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S16E4 – Using the Senses to Connect with Readers

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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S16E3 – Between the Lines: Importance of Subtext

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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S16E2 – Using Similes and Metaphors

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card

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S16E1 – Writing Right Right Now

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it’s lost. – Thomas Bernhard

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