March 2, 2009

Five Common Writing Mistakes That My Students Make That I Still Make (and You Probably Make Too)

Forgetting the basics

If you’re writing about a person, then can I please have their age? It may not seem important to you, but in my experience there’s a difference between an forty-year old skydiver and a five-year old skydiver.
Too much connective tissue
If the movies made writing more cinematic (visual scene-setting, jumps cuts, flashbacks, etc.) can [...]