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Aug. 24th, 2006 10:39 amI want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act. - Orson Welles, 1915 - 1985
Welles applied this to acting, but it seems to me it applies just as much to writing.
This morning Raven was citing a T-shirt a friend of hers saw in Edmonton: Bad acting makes me cranky. I immediately said, Bad writing makes me cranky. I want that T-shirt. - not that I'd ever wear it.
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