"As a contractor, it's important to have insulated gloves and rubber-tipped shoes," the electrician says. All young carpenters take note.
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"The most important tool in the contractor's toolkit is still the hammer," says the carpenter. Plumbers in training nod along.
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My point here is that writing is a *medium*, but not everybody in the business of putting words down on page is doing the same thing.
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You can absolutely learn tips and tricks from other writers. But you deserve a moment to consider their applicability to what you're doing.
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A lot of the most famous writing advice out there (e.g., Chekhov's Gun) is actually very genre-specific.
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Even more of it comes from trying to fit wide swathes of literature into a unified canon governed by the same rules. (E.g., act structures.)
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So many of us spend so much time trying to stretch prose stories out onto a framework that made sense for *plays*.
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Or pruning our voice out of a story until it's nothing but a set of bullet points with dialogue.
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Or trying to figure out a way to center a story that's not about conflict around a conflict, because reasons.
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Also, the reason I named Palahniuk, King, and Clancy? Is because they're among the writers whose advice I see touted most often.
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@alexandraerin Their advice tends to revolve around "Strip away, strip away" which is popular advice
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@arthur_affect More so Tom and Chuck than Steve, but yeah.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@alexandraerin The standard creative-writing course "strip away" logic straight up states Dickens is a bad incompetent writer4 replies 6 retweets 7 likes - Show replies
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