Learn How to Use Daily Prompts

“Show, don’t tell” is one of those writing rules that are so pervasive I hesitate to even offer it, even when a scene is lagging and clearly needs to do more work in the showing.

Recently, I’ve been rereading one of my favorite Edith Wharton novels, The Custom of the Country, and stumbled across this line: “Everybody wanted him to write—everybody had decided that he ought to, that he would, that he must be persuaded to..."

This week, I heard from a dear friend who gave me an update on her life. The subject line of her Email was “your burners are in my morning essay”, which was a callback to a conversation we’d had several years ago in which, I developed Burner Theory.