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
Tricks of the Trade
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
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
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
S16E5 – Make it Small
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. – Bruce Feiler
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
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
S16E2 – Using Similes and Metaphors
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. – Orson Scott Card
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