Recently, Gotham’s own Elane Johnson gave a lecture called “Don’t Kill Me With Your Words: Writing Dialogue That Doesn’t Suck.”
Which is perfect, because if you want to know what good non-sucky dialogue is, just listen to Elane talk: Continue reading “Authentic Dialogue”
This week, as I was writing this letter, the Governor of Puerto Rico finally admitted that Hurricane Maria killed at least 1,400 people last year.
For 11 months, though, the government insisted that the death toll was only 64, though given the force of the storm and the humanitarian crisis that followed, that was plainly, painfully false. Continue reading “The Build-It-Better Cliché”
So, in a few weeks, I’m giving a talk called Recipes for Disaster: The Art of the Disaster Narrative at the Hippocamp literary conference, which means lately I’ve been reading tons of stories about hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods. Continue reading “Truth or Myth?”