In my prior life as a university English professor, all I did was nonfiction writing. I taught it. I wrote it. I lived it. And I discovered something in the process: there is a strong tendency to want to divorce creativity from nonfiction writing. When you take a “creative writing” class in school, no one …
Tag: style
May 16
When Good Stories Go Bad…
Well, “bad” may be a bit harsh. And maybe what I want to talk about today isn’t so much when a formerly good story becomes a mutant monster of epic proportions. What I want to talk about is something I have a bit more experience with — when a good story idea starts bad. You …