For What It’s Worth: Writing Tip from Kurt Vonnegut, No. 6

6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

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The Writing Life: Antisocial (Media) #2 — Behold the Internet Scorned

“I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.”
— Flannery O’Connor

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For What It’s Worth: Writing Tip from Kurt Vonnegut, No. 5

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

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