Friday, January 24, 2014

old writing

I found this old book on the library shelf. 
Interesting cover. But get a load of  the 
writing under the illustration. 
It reminds me, I rediscovered an old story
of mine called THE HANGMAN CALLS 
PARIS which I wrote in 1982. It was fun 
to reread but one of my big mistakes as 
a writer then, was something that 
Stephen King also pointed out in his 
ON WRITING book. It's best to keep 
it simple and write a character 'said' or 'says.'
If you're not careful you wind up with what 
happened below:
 






















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