Rewriting is like emergency surgery: you lay the mangled body out and prod it, limb by limb, trying to decide what can be salvaged and what needs to be amputated...
Spare parts
Tag: plotting
L’esprit de l’escalier
So you’ve been at this party and some wiseacre has made a smart remark at your expense, but it’s not until you’re out the door and halfway down the stairs that you think of the snappy comeback that would’ve floored the bastard… if only you’d thought of it in time.
The plot folds: Wilkie Collins’ No Name
Wilkie Collins’ No Name kicks off with a plot fold so elegant, so beautifully crafted, that it induces an almost electric jolt of pleasure
Donald Hounam 