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Show, Don’t Tell?
R. L. Copple answers the questions: Why are many against “show, don’t tell”? Should a writer worry about showing instead of telling?
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What Do Readers Want?
Author R. L. Copple examines the question: what do readers really want? And how do writers give that to them?
So You Want to be a Writer?
R. L. Copple encourages new writers to think through the realities of making a career out of the work. The bad news? It will take some work and persistence. The good news? It can be done.
Fishing for God
Back in the early 90s, I was the pastor for a small, country church in Noel, MO. On the same district, I happened to have a good friend who shepherded a congregation not too many miles away, named Tom. Occasionally, we’d get together and go trout fishing at a trout farm in Cassville.
The first thing you need to know is I’m not much of a fisherman.
Look Ma, No Practice!
In the creative arts, practice is the norm. It’s expected that a pianist will spend hours and years perfecting their playing ability. Rock bands spend days and months practicing a song before releasing it. Actors attend numerous rehearsals for plays, or do a movie scene numerous times before the director is satisfied. And before that goes years of practice in most every profession before an artist ever gets on stage or in front of a camera.
So why do people who want to become published authors expect their first novel to sell? Why do people think authors don’t need to practice before snagging a publishing contract?
