Category: movement

  • Scene Breaks: Martin Doesn’t Do ’em

    Recently, in the critiques I’ve been giving for my writers group, I’ve taken to pointing out that we, as a group, don’t generally use scene breaks. (Have you ever noticed you start pointing out bits and pieces in other people’s writing that you think you might need in your own? I do that. A lot.) This strikes me as…

  • Bringing It All Back Around

    In Jane Smiley’s 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, she pointed out something that I’d never thought about before: The idea that if something is wrong with the end of the piece, then the problem is actually at the beginning. I thought it was a great point–it’s how the resonance gets created, the inevitability.…