Well, learning doesn't mean having the wit to actually use it well, but:
show vs tell actually means use the telling detail
big fucking scenes are just noise with the volume too high if the reader isn't invested in the characters
When you (meaning me) think you're done, you're not. Then you have to go through and search, sentence by sentence, for this grindingly tedious list of goddamn irritating phrases that you use way too much. And after that, THEN you have to go over it again, because you will catch maybe a tenth of the other stuff you crapped up.
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Date: 2007-09-04 02:04 am (UTC)show vs tell actually means use the telling detail
big fucking scenes are just noise with the volume too high if the reader isn't invested in the characters
When you (meaning me) think you're done, you're not. Then you have to go through and search, sentence by sentence, for this grindingly tedious list of goddamn irritating phrases that you use way too much. And after that, THEN you have to go over it again, because you will catch maybe a tenth of the other stuff you crapped up.