Novels are not movies on paper

Cuppa: A hand-poured cup of the best ideas about writing I've tasted lately

Hey, y’all—

I admit it: I grit my teeth when someone assures me how much I’m going to love editing their “cinematic” novel. When someone tells me that, I know I’m in for pages and pages of witty repartee over the bottomless cups of coffee fueling the snarkfest, interspersed with action scenes parsed out in painful present-tense detail. (“It feels so imme…