And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“It’s like you’ve been in a terrible accident and had your arm amputated,” she told him. “After a while, the pain goes away, and… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask:… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...” — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Permanent construction of the sort Flagler was referring to would not come cheaply, however. Early in 1910, Flagler wrote to John Carrere, designer of… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“The more a man learns, Dickens said, “the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery).” — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
