Tag: writing
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Needful Things, Shameful Things
[Spoiler-free section] As a Constant Reader, my journey through Stephen King’s bibliography has been as meandering as anyone else’s. Early stuff to late stuff, coke stuff to sober stuff, the beautiful and the rotten. But in my reading of Needful Things, I realized about halfway through that I had never gotten around to his cynical stuff. A…
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Writer’s Diary 003: I’m not sure if structure is real
Is “structure” in the room with us right now? If filmtok and filmstagram reels have their say, anyone even remotely interested in movies will soon memorize every line of improvised dialogue in Hollywood history, every instance of when “the director just kept on rolling,” and, presumably, the rules of filmmaking. Saying that a movie has…
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