by snowydays | Dec 2, 2016
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 5 (Sorry to have been so long getting round to this if to this. I’ve been busy writing a novel, as I hope you too are doing. The rules are not commandments, just a check list against which you can test your own...
by snowydays | Feb 8, 2016
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 4 ‘Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.’ If it’s not, what is it doing in the book? Cut it. It’s no use just ‘expressing yourself’. You’re writing a novel here. No-one...
by snowydays | Jan 11, 2016
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 3 ‘Every character should want something, if only a glass of water.’ Your main characters need to want something important – whether success or true love, revenge or forgiveness, peace of mind or excitement: should...
by snowydays | Dec 22, 2015
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Rules of Vonnegut / 2 ‘Give the reader at least one person he or she can relate to.’ The reader really wants to read about himself, herself: so make it possible. Have one admirable person amongst your den of thieves, one firm apple in...
by snowydays | Dec 8, 2015
Writing Tips From Fay Weldon The Nine Rules of Vonnegut / 1 Bless’d be his name! Kurt Vonnegut [1902-2007] was an American author who wrote fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction in his lifetime. A hard worker, a good...
