Posted on August 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Three writers recently shared the lessons they took from non-literary sources.
Natalie Hart recounted what she learned about the ways in which Olympians measure success and how writers can benefit from adopting the same mindset.
Marion Lougheed also turned to athletics, but in this case a particular sport — basketball, she said, taught her key lessons about writing microfiction.
And Keith Cronin unpacked the ways in which the TV show The Bear can serve as a case study for storytelling success.
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I have a writer friend whose career was as a defense attorney for high-profile cases. He's writing legal fiction now, and his approach there is the same as his trials: Present the information for the reader similarly to how he would present to a jury (via evidence, witnesses, cross-examination, summary etc) -- because the "jury" is equivalent to the reader who is the audience of the book.