Writing Craft

The Martian by Andy Weir, his first novel and soon to be a movie (click for trailer), was originally published on the author’s personal website without charge. You could read it free. That’s “free as in no money.”

Writing from the heart occurs in two distinct phases: spew, and then clean it up.

In a blog, that process means there were several premature publications of that article and, depending on when someone looked, they would see different versions with different thoughts and, sometimes, different conclusions.

Last night, I watched “Wise Blood” (1979 film production) as derived from the Flannery O’Conner novel of the same name. I say derived because the time of the story has been changed and, after watching the film, I suspect other changes and omissions, enough that Flannery, were she still alive, might want to distance herself from this production.

Here’s some text before and then after making changes suggested by a writing aid, Hemingway App.

1. Have a passion for the topic;
2. Express that passion; and
3. Keep the reader focused.

The first is obvious. Writing takes time and if you don’t care about something, you won’t spend the time.

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