"Ward had Grafton as mentor, who basically told her to cut the adverbs and a lot of detail; sketching picture, not painting a portrait."
This is kind of funny given the length of Ward's latest, but in general I think it's horrible, horrible advice. In fact, I think it's this etch-a-sketch philosophy that's forced the genre into more shorthand, readers into more work filling in blanks, and resulted in a general lack of *pop* among alarmingly SHORTER novels.
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Date: 2009-07-19 06:54 pm (UTC)This is kind of funny given the length of Ward's latest, but in general I think it's horrible, horrible advice. In fact, I think it's this etch-a-sketch philosophy that's forced the genre into more shorthand, readers into more work filling in blanks, and resulted in a general lack of *pop* among alarmingly SHORTER novels.
Robin