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Everything You've Learned About Writing is a Lie
Literature Basics Week
Okay, so maybe not everything. But there's a lot of stuff that I remember learning in middle and high school that turned out to not actually work for me -- or for pretty much anybody -- as a writer. I'm hoping that if I can lay these lies out for you, we cans turn it around and unlearn some of these bad habits. Because, man, nothing says "noob" like practicing some of these frequently-taught faux pas.
Lie #1: Be super duper descriptive!
Wait, wait, I know what you're thinking. Descriptive language is good, right? You want your reader to know what you're talking about, and to be able to see, smell it, hear it, touch i
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September Prompt: A Dinner Theater
July's prompt, The Less Appropriate Time, had one entry:
Congratulations to haijinik (https://www.deviantart.com/haijinik) for winning the 100 points for the prompt. :D
August was an awfully busy month for me, so I independently decided that prompts could take a break. But now we're back in full strength, so...
Let's move on to the new prompt!
A tiny little bit of inspiration...
We spend so much time of our lives around a dinner table, so many things happen to us when there's food involved, and so many situations or events are set off by the simple fact that we're sharing a meal... but what if your story was set off by food itself? If the thing that makes all happen is as tr
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