Poynter excerpts a chapter of a book by its writing guru, Roy Peter Clark, who explains how to figure out what your story is really about: "It’s really about fear, or comfort, or home, or family, or courage, or loyalty, or denial, of the hundred other themes writers depend upon most often. Remember, a topic — exotic pets — is not a story. A story is when a woman’s pet chimpanzee attacks and disfigures her best friend and neighbor – and then tries to kill the owner."
December 15, 2015
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