by snowydays | Jul 31, 2017
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon Why will no-one publish my novel? Why have agents and publishers shaken their heads and said ‘not for me’, given you at best a rave rejection – ‘We found the novel imaginative and touching, etc, etc, but not for us. Sorry.’ Or a straight...
by snowydays | Jul 19, 2017
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 9 Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish it by themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. And there it is, my point made clear and...
by snowydays | Jul 19, 2017
Writing Tips from Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 8 Give your reader as much information as you can as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. This is the Rule I spend most time discussing with my students, and the one with which they have most difficulty. That’s...
by snowydays | Dec 14, 2016
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 7 ‘Write to please just one person. If you open a window on the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.’ Choose a reader, someone as like you as possible (same gender, same education, same temperament)...
by snowydays | Dec 2, 2016
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 6 ‘Be a sadist. No matter how sweet or innocent your leading character is, make awful things happen to them in order that they reader can find out what they are made of.’ Don’t be too preoccupied with your own...
