How not to break your book
Here's when it's easiest to get off-course. (+ a poll, please vote!)
I watched Nyad the other night, about a 64-year-old marathon swimmer’s quest to swim 110 miles from Cuba to the Florida Keys. It’s a terrific film with excellent writing and lots of heart that also has the fun side effect of making you feel like a lazy bag of trash. (Yesterday I groaned in frustration because I’d left my laptop in the loft and would need to ascend and descend a single set of stairs.)
I thought of the movie when my friend Leah Konen (whose latest thriller, KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE, is fantastic) texted me to complain:
why are the beginnings the hardest to revise
It’s like trying to fix/set up every issue and also avoid info dumps
And keep it all super pace-y
And I unthinkingly replied:
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