Wing-suited skydiver Gary Connery jumps 2,400ft without parachute
A Keanu-style “Whoa” is the only appropriate response.
Wing-suited skydiver Gary Connery jumps 2,400ft without parachute
A Keanu-style “Whoa” is the only appropriate response.
(Source: teamcoco.com)
Via Brain Pickings
Dear What It Is Class,
Kurt Vonnegut wrote a lot of short stories before he figured out this list of 8 writing tips. And he probably used tips from other writers along the way.
You can follow his good advice point by point, but you’ll still have to write a lot of short stories to really understand what he’s talking about here. By then you will have your own way of doing it. And so it goes.
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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