Reflections of a working writer and reader
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give a kind of background to another's grief, against which it stands out more clearly. Whereas in your story the characters cry and you sigh. Yes, be more cold. . . The more objective you are, the stronger will be the impression you make. Anton Chekhov
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My fellow panellists at the recent Left Coast Crime event in Bristol, feeling that they couldn’t manage without me, built a likeness from paper and rag. Apparently it fooled the audience, though one or two people in the signing queue did a double-take.
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