Joseph O'Connor - 10 writing tips

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Wed, 2011-02-23 12:30

There are one or two gems in here, if you sift and discount the obvious. The actual tips tend to be buried in the final line - the one I need to focus on is grabbing the reader.

He says make it seem like you're on a first date. Interesting idea, know what he means, but am prob one of those people who chatter pointlessly on a first date ;)

http://www.blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/_386/

Wed, 2011-02-23 22:09

Terrence Oblong

Curses, apparently I have to stop using my 'the narrator is a piece of furniture' routine. That's my next year's work on the scrapheap. And I had such hopes for Armchair Tales.

Thu, 2011-02-24 00:02

ashb

Oooh, Armchair Tales sounds great, will have to search for it next time I am browsing. Actually isn't that what Virginia Woolf did, kind of. (Once read something of hers about snail trails on the wall of her house - when that happens to me I am too busy hushing it up to think about using it in fiction) Confession - i have never yet read J O'C, just found one or two of these may be worth trying out....

ashb

Tue, 2011-08-23 13:02

owlybynight

Thanks for this! Very useful reminders. Mo

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