Esmeralda Stone

writing

  • Killing Your Darlings And Their Cousin…

    A well-known piece of writing advice from Stephen King is ‘kill your darlings.’ What does this mean? It means after you’ve spent hours creating the most perfect scene (or paragraph) with witty dialogue, intriguing action, and immense tension, only to find out it does nothing to move the story forward—you kill it. Delete it. Erase…

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  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit! Happy November!

    I’m a sucker for writing humor. Not writing humor, although I don’t mind that, but humor that has something to do with writing. See Exhibit A above. I don’t remember where I first saw it (probably Facebook) but I laughed my ass off. Every time I looked at it. I still love it. I will…

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  • The Art of Making Pie Crust…

    I made pie crust dough at six this morning. Not so I could make a pie that early, but because I like to refrigerate the dough for at least six hours before using it. It’s one of the things that makes it easier to roll out and handle. “How do you make your pie crust?”…

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  • Eeeek!! I Saw Something I Wish I could Unsee!

    I did it. I folded, and I looked, and I’m (a little) horrified. I’m of course talking about my word count for Lasting Remains. We traveled in August, and I compiled what I’d written of Lasting Remains into a Word doc and emailed it to myself. You know, just in case there was some weird…

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