The recipe for writing success? Kill your characters—beautiful literary infographic from “slow journalism magazine” Delayed Gratification reverse-engineers what makes a prize-winning novel. The results corroborate Kurt Vonnegut’s advice to “be a sadist” and make awful things happen to your lead characters, “no matter how sweet or innocent” they may be. (via explore)
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May 1st 2012 0:34
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That is… accurate. Dammit, Rose!
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Psh, done and done.
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#writing #weeds #look! Sex and death; kill your characters if it’s a drama, marry them off when it’s a comedy. …..this...
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I feel like the scorpion in the scorpion and the frog parable.
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I cannot even with y’all. YOU SADISTS
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