Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Courage to Stop - State of the Web

Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Courage to Stop - State of the Web

Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - The Courage to Stop - State of the Web

Brevity was always a discipline. Now it’s a statement.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
Today I removed one of the earliest actions from Thousand Hell’s tactical narrative game, intended to be a tradeoff. In practice it was too hard to visualize the cost. Pretty sure it was in the very first prototype… #KillYourDarlings

Yay, time to cut 20% of the manuscript length!

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Stop Creating Darlings You’ll Have to Murder

On getting too emotionally attached to your writing Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
https://writingcooperative.com/stop-creating-darlings-youll-have-to-murder-ad6c013da32

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Medium

Medium

The writer is about to delete me from her novel. I can feel her fingers twitching on the keyboard. It's happened before to my subplot characters. 💻

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Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/the-subplot-character

The Subplot Character

The writer is about to delete me from her novel. I can feel her fingers twitching on the keyboard. It's happened before to my subplot characters.

Tall And True

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My review of #KillYourDarlings by Peter Swanson is live on #damppebbles!

Unlike anything I've read before. Clever, inventive and entertaining from start to finish.

Check out my review...
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