This isn't a podcast about crime.
This is Start with this, a podcast featuring Night Vale creators Joseph Fink and me, Jeffrey Craner.
Each episode we discuss a topic and then give you two assignments.
Something to consume and something to create.
Start with this.
Negative space.
Art is hard.
Starting is hard.
If you want to start somewhere, you can start with this.
You can start with this.
I'm not going to tell you what to write, nor how to write it.
I don't want to force you down any specific path, nor make you do anything you don't want to do.
I'm not a prescriptivist.
Artistic rules are not hard and fast.
They aren't universal.
This episode doesn't focus on a common tool in writing, but you don't want to ignore it.
There's almost no fiction that doesn't include negative space.
Negative space is not about ignoring the story.
Negative space simply doesn't say what something is.
Spelling everything out for reason readers isn't always the best way to give them the whole picture.