I’ve spent the last few days getting scared out of my wits by a wholly unexpected source: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Character Development, Fear, Inspirations, Murder Mystery, Muse, Narrative and Exposition, Plot, Point of View, Raymond E. Feist, Realism, Ten Little Indians, The Human Condition
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Saturday, August 21, 2010
As Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe have both toiled to teach us, suspense in storytelling mostly comes from the things you don’t say. However, as I pointed out yesterday, every storyteller has a stern obligation to provide readers with everything they need to know to understand what’s going on. Walking the thin line between [...]
Yesterday I told the story of a math teacher who kept me in suspense, and ultimately spared me the nightmare of taking more math classes. I also talked about how little I liked math in the first place because it was just a set of soulless rules. And then I promised you another creative writing [...]
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Not too long ago, I unleashed some pretty harsh words on math. (If you don’t feel like following the link, the harsh words were “dang you.”) I didn’t excel at math in high school — not because I didn’t get it, but because I didn’t care. With the strange exception of factoring polynomials, I was [...]
