Tag: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman #003: The DOUBLE DELAY

Jul 11, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, power punch, short stories, writing technique

Today, we’ll look at a very powerful technique Neil Gaiman makes use of in The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It’s one I call the DOUBLE DELAY. Now, even kids know what a cliff-hanger is if they’ve ever read a Hardy Boys or Goosebumps book. The idea that you end a chapter…
Neil Gaiman #002: Use THE ECHO as a voice!

Jul 10, 2013

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Ace Baker

in fiction, knockout idea, nonfiction, novels, short stories, writing technique

Let’s get right to it today and see an innovative way Neil Gaiman uses parentheses in The Ocean at the End of the Lane: I would talk to people whose existence I had forgotten years before and they would ask me about my marriage (failed a decade ago, a relationship that had slowly frayed…