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Interestingly, it's quite similar to how Raymond Chandler taught himself to write - he took a popular short story (by Erle Stanley Gardner I think), wrote an ou
by fenomas 7y ago
Interestingly, it's quite similar to how Raymond Chandler taught himself to write - he took a popular short story (by Erle Stanley Gardner I think), wrote an outline of its plot, and then wrote his own story from the outline and compared it to the original. He clearly didn't keep up the process for his original works; it's interesting to wonder what the result might have been.
- potta_coffee 7y agoBenjamin also used a similar process to learn writing. I've been meaning to try it, but I'm a huge procrastinator.
- ggambetta 7y agoI did the same, except with Dan Brown. I wrote a bit about this process here: https://gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_swiss_trains.html https://gabrielgambetta.com/tgl_swiss_trains.html Every time this comes up, someone asks to see the actual spreadsheet. I've shared it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HdlD_tmmm1D0zX1JgXzFVSFB9nk6LT_DMDnsIPugl0M/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HdlD_tmmm1D0zX1JgXzF...
- WA 7y agoCool, thanks for sharing!