ext_65497 ([identity profile] coercion88.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] lettered 2006-06-23 01:54 pm (UTC)

'Who wants to write the filler?'
This is interesting, because this seems to be a problem when you're writing stories / novels etc but not (hopefully) when you're writing scripts. You can jump all over the place in a script, ditching all the tedium. Actually, I suppose you can do that just as well in prose, but it requires quite a sharp editorial eye and lots of courage to say, Fuck it, I don't need the filler. The reader isn't stupid, they'll work it out themselves. Then you have to make sure the prose doesn't sound jumpy.
So far, I haven't managed any of this at all in my great oeuvre. Not at all.

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