This episode is sponsored by Scrivener, created by writers for writers.
In this conversation, Roy Peter Clark, author of Murder Your Darlings: And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser (Little, Brown), he says, “Every story is a workshop.”
What a great way to approach reading and writing. I love it.
Roy is the author of several books on writing including Writing Tools, The Glamour of Grammar, Writing Short, Help! for Writers, and The Art of X-Ray Reading.
In this episode we talk about a deep dive he took on a 19-year-old college freshman’s brilliant story of a man washing the stain of blood from the sidewalk after a killing.
There’s lots of great stuff I know you’ll dig in this episode, so I’ll leave you to it.
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