Always go back to the Skipper's Seafood commercial: napkins, cups, signage, smiling people eating fish, food servers in uniform -- but everything demonstrates Skippers. The "horses' metaphor offered by Gordon Lish is that a wagon of settlers leaving St. Louis would be pulled by the same team of horses that arrive with it in California.…
Always go back to the Skipper's Seafood commercial: napkins, cups, signage, smiling people eating fish, food servers in uniform -- but everything demonstrates Skippers. The "horses' metaphor offered by Gordon Lish is that a wagon of settlers leaving St. Louis would be pulled by the same team of horses that arrive with it in California. The themes/dynamics/whatever that drive the story can be reinvented constantly and morphed, but must remain essentially the same. In my book 'Choke' the main horse is 'things that represent other things' so we have a clock that tells time with bird calls, coded security announcements, and ultimately a doctor who turns out to be a patient.
Always go back to the Skipper's Seafood commercial: napkins, cups, signage, smiling people eating fish, food servers in uniform -- but everything demonstrates Skippers. The "horses' metaphor offered by Gordon Lish is that a wagon of settlers leaving St. Louis would be pulled by the same team of horses that arrive with it in California. The themes/dynamics/whatever that drive the story can be reinvented constantly and morphed, but must remain essentially the same. In my book 'Choke' the main horse is 'things that represent other things' so we have a clock that tells time with bird calls, coded security announcements, and ultimately a doctor who turns out to be a patient.