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5 things every writer wants to learn, with Roy Peter Clark
Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing
The Importance of Chronology in Fiction
Stories are the rendering of vicarious experience. They're not about pointing you to Elson or Castle, just to put you there. T.S. Eliot had a name for it: objective, correlative. When is no longer just Monday, March 15th? When is time unfrozen, chronology in action? And why is always the hardest thing? Maybe not in fiction, but in nonfiction because it involves human motivation and things like that.
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