Nathan Bransford offers advice on how to handle a situation every writer (in just about every medium) is familiar with: How to choose what to cut out when you’ve gone over your )or your editor’s, or producer’s, whatever) page count. This one’s definitely a must-read.
by Nathan Bransford
Kill your darlings” is one of the most repeated bits of writing advice out there, but how do you know which darlings to murder? You need to decide what to cut from a novel, but it can be tricky.
To quote TVWriter™ minion’s Very Close Friend the Freudian Psychiatrist:
It isn’t the situations you find yourself in that are stressing you out, it’s your reactions to them!
That being the case, here’s some good advice about how to handle your self-sabotaging mind and, you know, get some productive writing or reading or viewing or even living done.
Speaking of the 2021 Cultural Revolution (as we were on this very site just yesterday), a TVWriter™ frequent visitor has sent me a link to another insightful analysis of the problem.
Kathryn VanArendonk’s article comes at the inclusion situation from a new angle, starting with the masterful heading:
TV’s White Guys Are in Crisis
And taking it from there with:
(NOTE FROM LB: It’s been far too long since PJ McIlvaine, who just as the pic above tells us, is indeed a “Dragon of Magical Things” (and a most powerful one at that) graced this website and we are sooo glad to have her back, even for just this tasty little teaser.)
Write.
How real do you think filmic autopsies are?
Seems to me that none of out here in viewerdom is qualified to judge. I mean, what are the criteria?
OTOH, it’s a pretty bet that Dr. Joye Carter, with over 30 years of experience in the field, knows the standards. Let’s see what she has to say.