I often feel like I state conflicting things on here.
I don’t believe in rules.. these are the three rules of storytelling..
Don’t write just to be different… So sick of the same old thing..
I like to think when I see the same faces popping up that it’s a testimony that I’m not the only one out here, that many of us understand that sound bite advice is shallow and incomplete and the reality is good writing is a finely spun web that binds together many different, even superficially contradictory techniques and approaches and allows context to shape them. And when I come out with something like, embrace the caricature, you’re willing to listen.. hello?
The reason most will almost immediately baulk at that is because they will make the assumption I am talking about stereotyping. They run close and its not uncommon to use them interchangeably. And I’m not instinctively…
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