Friday, May 1, 2009

Topic: What Can Be Learned from Other People's Writing?

10-second review: Mary Higgins Clark summarized the first and last paragraphs of each chapter of duMaurier’s Rebecca to see how she created terror or suspense.


Source: EM Abbe. The Writer (December 2004), 6. The Writer is a magazine by writers for writers.


Comment: Never tried this technique because I don’t write fiction. But I have favorite professional articles and I might go back and analyze them. What did they do that made me believe they were valuable articles? RayS.

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