River of Possibilities, by Marti Lawrence (19:37)
In today’s excursion, we learn that stories that don’t breathe can suffocate a reader.
In today’s excursion, we learn that stories that don’t breathe can suffocate a reader.
Today marks the first book to go the distance, and at the same time, teaches us that even a forty-minute champ can have a blemish or two.
As a curious counterpoint to yesterday’s lesson, today we learn that a good story can be damaged by weak editing.
Today’s candidate teaches me that even grammatically correct and properly punctuated books with (presumably) a passable story can fail to engage a reader. Your sentence construction, word choices, and camera work matter.
In today’s installment, we learn that even little details matter, and that story facts have to be both plausible and internally consistent.