RELATED VIDEOS:
→Specificity & Concrete Language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgNW3EgtT1E&t=5s
→Word Choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKoOxrcVnHM&t=156s
→Show, Don't Tell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM1lfA_Frgc&t=339s
→How to Line Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-vTg3PtE9M&t=1801s
Examples from:
The Beguiling by Zsuzsi Gartner: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53169555
Baba by K-Ming Chang: https://gulfcoastmag.org/online/winter/spring-2020/baba-20/
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30183198-history-of-wolves
→BLM petitions, donations, and resources (updating list): https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co / https://blacklivesmattercanada.carrd.co
→Anti-Racism Resource Guide: https://allyresourceguide.com
→Issues in the World (updating): https://issuesintheworld.carrd.co
MY SHORT FICTION:
☾I Will Never Tell You This - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/never-tell-you-this/
☾Solarium - Minola Review: http://www.minolareview.com/shaelin-bishop
☾Barefoot - The Fiddlehead [print only]: https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/282
☾Wishbone - PRISM international [print only]: http://prismmagazine.ca/2020/04/19/prism-58-3-sprawl-is-live/
☾Wishbone - video reading: https://vimeo.com/420052282
☾Cherry and Jane in the Garden of Eden - The Puritan: http://puritan-magazine.com/cherry-and-jane-in-the-garden-of-eden/
☾Hold Me Under Till I See the Light - The New Quarterly: https://tnq.ca/story/hold-me-under-till-i-see-the-light/
☾Beautiful Animal - Room: https://roommagazine.com/issues/twine
☾Zugzwang - CBC [excerpt]: https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/zugzwang-by-shaelin-bishop-1.5977031
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:34 - Purple prose vs. descriptive writing
4:07 - Clarity
6:44 - Specificity
10:25 - Surprise and insight
12:42 - Flow and narrative integration
18:40 - Economy
20:12 - The joy of language
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OUTRO MUSIC: "l u v t e a [acoustic]" by Autumn Keys
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