Daryl Rothman: writing stories that matter

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Monday, September 9, 2019

Writing's Secret Formula: How to Write Stories that Matter

Always an honor to write for the talented and unfailingly kind Katie Weiland.

Does writing have a secret formula? How do we craft stories and characters that people care about?

Here's my guest post on Katie's award-winning website:

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/how-to-write-stories-that-matter/

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"Vernacular?" Curly protests, in this scene from arguably the Stooges' most venerated episode, "That's a Derby!"

Of course vernacular is kind of what it's all about here, huh? Language. Writing. Literature. Saying your piece. But just as the judge exhorts poor Curly to say it plain, if you will, so too do I encourage all visitors here to do the same. Have your say. Consider mine, if you would. We won't be mean or vulgar here (not that I'm a big censorship guy), but we can be spirited, and I hope we will. I'm not here to just talk "at" you. Let's get a little literary community percolating here, shall we? THANK YOU for visiting; I hope you'll stay a while...

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Monday, September 9, 2019

Writing's Secret Formula: How to Write Stories that Matter

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed~Poe.