Posts Tagged ‘John Scalzi’
Flip the Story
14Mar12
Yesterday at SpecTechnique we looked at cases when a cliche is deformed or expanded. When you’re going into a deformed cliche, you think you’ve seen this line before. Then when the cliche flips around on you, you’re taken by surprise. This is a technique writers can use to breach their readers’ defenses. Today we’re leaving […]
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Tags: China Mieville, John Scalzi, Mary Gentle, Osamu Tezuka, Star Wars