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Archive for July 14th, 2005

Writer’s Guide

Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer’s Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh:

As a general rule … your viewpoint characters should have less, rather than more, description than anyone else: a reader of different skin or hair color ought to be able to sink into this persona without being continually jolted by contrary information.

Hey, I loved Cyteen, so clearly she knows of what she speaks.