The Hellfire Herald: Keira Kroft and Edward McKeown Writer to Writer Wednesday

The Hellfire Herald: Keira Kroft and Edward McKeown Writer to Writer Wednesday: The difference between the pro and the amateur is that amateur gave up. You have to have the hide of a rhino to do this and you have to write. Don’t try to produce perfect work or you will never produce anything. Line up words and get moving. But the best advice I got was from Orson Scott Card and it’s a mistake a lot of us make early on. We go for the action, the big bang. It’s more important to make us CARE about people and what is happening. Otherwise the big bang means little if all it is doing is taking out faceless stormtroopers or other “red shirts” (Star Trek geek reference). If I care what is going on and to whom it is happening a paper cut can have the significance of an atom bomb