Tight-Writing
On Bravo there's a promo for an Inside the Actors Studio with Susan Sarandon saying "if it doesn't advance the plot or reveal something about the character, I'd as soon leave it out" Well even Ms. S...
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Someone who breaks the rules, in what I think is to good effect, is Jean Auel in her Earth's Children series. (Clan of the Cave Bear, etc) She can have pages of description just for the landscape -...
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Has anyone ever read 'Far from the Madding Crowd' (or any Thomas Hardy for that matter)? I had to study it two years ago (which naturally turned me against it but there you go). we were told to go...
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Thomas Hardy...Yeah, the one we read was The Mayor of Casterbridge. A serial as I recall, which I guess explains it... writer has an agenda other than moving the story along or establishing...
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Hemingway. The ultimate in tight writing. The man never wasted a syllable. Papa Hemingway isn't in vogue like he used to be but still he's the best example I can think of and a great storyteller to...
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And what did Hemmingway & Fitzgerald have in common: Max Perkins. For anyone who doesn't know, Max Perkins was an editor at Scribner's who almost singlehandedly brought the publishing giant (and...
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