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How not to waste 100k words

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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How to Write a Crime Story

Ben Affleck's cat walking out on the sidewalk is an example of progressively complicating a scene. If you want to write a crime story take that scene that scene I just described and do it your way. Start thinking about an obligatory scene in for another example. Say you're writing a love story there's a moment in time when the lovers break up right? You've got to have that scene in there.

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