Saturday, April 14, 2007

Vonnegut's rules

As I'm sure you've heard by now, Kurt Vonnegut passed away recently. I have to say I wasn't the biggest Vonnegut fan... I'm not really partial to Slaughterhouse Five like most people are, but I kinda dug Cat's Cradle, so that's something right?

Anyway, Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a story are getting posted all around the net. They're all brilliant, and not necessarily things you normally think of when starting to outline or write your story. I first saw them on Jane Espenson's blog, so that's the one I'm linking here. And as Ms. Espenson also notes, these absolutely apply to screenwriting as well. Go read!

(again, via Jane in Progress)

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