Interesting things for writing
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dettiot "Adults are obsolete children." -Dr. Seuss
Jane Espenson on writing titles for scripts & other stuff. "I often will try to come up with some concrete symbol for what's going on at the heart of the story. If it can relate to both the A and B stories, well, even better. "Harsh Light of Day," one of my Buffy episodes, did this, relating to the actual sunlight that was important in the action story, and, figuratively, to a cold realization that was important in the emotional story."
ozarque shares an intriguing opening passage to a short story she once published. "I tell you there've been laws written down since first men could record their wickedness and their pride -- and there has always been a way to make those laws no more than chicken scratches. Laws are like wars -- of their making there is no end, and they're not worth warm spit. I tell you, what we need is a miracle."
dettiot "Adults are obsolete children." -Dr. SeussJane Espenson on writing titles for scripts & other stuff. "I often will try to come up with some concrete symbol for what's going on at the heart of the story. If it can relate to both the A and B stories, well, even better. "Harsh Light of Day," one of my Buffy episodes, did this, relating to the actual sunlight that was important in the action story, and, figuratively, to a cold realization that was important in the emotional story."
ozarque shares an intriguing opening passage to a short story she once published. "I tell you there've been laws written down since first men could record their wickedness and their pride -- and there has always been a way to make those laws no more than chicken scratches. Laws are like wars -- of their making there is no end, and they're not worth warm spit. I tell you, what we need is a miracle."
