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Podcast: A Phil Svitek Podcast - A Series From Your 360 Creative Coach
Episode: How Raymond Chandler's Writing Technique Can Help You With Your Story's Pacing
Description: Raymond Chandler, author of novels such as The Big Sleep, had a unique writing method. He used to write on index cards. Why? So that his writing was dynamic. If nothing happened on the index card he finished writing on, he scrapped it. Each index card had to have something significant happen. That gave his novels energy and kept readers hooked. I love this technique. It totally aligns with the notion of trying to achieve the greatest impact in the least amount of words. This is a method any writer can utilize, even digitally. Just adjust the page margins...