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Jimmy Stamp's avatar

Do you ever worry about things folding together too neatly? A friend once described a piece of writing I loved as “too clever” - that is, for him, everything fit together too perfectly. Like a clockwork. I disagreed, but ever since I try to leave some space for accidents and messes in my stories. The nature of this particular process will inevitably create messes, I think, but what about the rest of your work? Can it be too clever?

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Brandon Daniels's avatar

I haven't had a chance to relisten to them just yet, but I'm pretty sure the brick by brick Vince Gilligan thing is from one of these two podcast interviews. https://archive.nerdist.com/nerdist-writers-panel-30-vince-gilligan/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0fKP2-BTEA

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