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Crafting Your Novel’s Key Moments With John Matthew Fox

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How to Create Wonder in Literary Fiction

I feel like description is one of the main ways to create wonder. If you describe something really well, especially if it's something strange... Cormac McCarthy describes all these men writing through the desert between the US and Mexico with little lightning bolts on their bodies. And I'm like, I just imagine that and thought, wow, that's really crazy and really beautiful. Yeah, that made me feel wonder. That's interesting. Are you expecting that in genre fiction? It depends on the author. You can feel wonder maybe at a romantic relationship, something you can feel wonder like the beauty that their love is finally coming together, something like that.

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