Once upon a time I wrote a novel. It was a passionate love story, a sweeping social drama, a staggering work of heartbreaking genius. So needless to say it was also a manuscript of epic proportions. It weighed in at a mighty 230,000 words. I knew it needed to be cut, but I didn’t have... Read more »
Later on, I’ll go through it in excruciatingly exhaustive line by line detail, but for now it’s worth looking at the complete Foolscap Global Story Grid for The Silence of the Lambs. Here it is: Just as a reminder, to put the Foolscap Global Story Grid in context, this one-pager gives the editor/writer the... Read more »
