Be A Sadist
/Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
KURT VONNEGUT
Advice to Writers
ADVICE TO WRITERS
About ATW
Writerly wisdom of the ages collected by the author of Advice To Writers, The Big Book of Irony, and The Portable Curmudgeon.