Monday, 22 December 2014

Tragic World VS Sob Story: How to write harsh words without being melodramatic

My post on sob stories got a lot of attention and, unsurprisingly, spawned several questions about how to write worlds where bad things are constantly happening without entering into sob story territory. Those are good questions to ask so let’s talk about how you do that and I’ll give you another set of rules to follow. Rules that you can honestly follow when writing a story with any amount of tragedy in it.

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