And Because Amanda Whined
My dear friend Amanda (roadremedies.blogspot.com) has complained that these entries do not link together in any sort of normal structure. She wants chronology, she wants a sequence of events.
I have none to offer.
Amanda will just have to learn to suffer silently.
I have none to offer.
Amanda will just have to learn to suffer silently.
posted by e. Readicker-Henderson at 5:57 PM
1 Comments:
Silent? Ed, you need to stop hanging around with hacks – and worse yet, writing-instructor hacks – if you want silent suffering.
"What the reader really wants," advises Jon Franklin, author of the classic Writing for Story, "is to be shown some insightful choices that have positive results. He wants to learn something the easy way for a change.
"It's an eminently reasonable desire, and the writer who fulfills it is destined for fame and fortune."
C'mon, Edward. Play to the cheap seats with the rest of us!
Except now I'm convinced your blog has some masterful narrative-nonfiction superstructure, which shall only emerge in the bestselling book version...
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