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Writing Excuses 10.23: Can You Tell Me How To Show?

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How to Create a Tone in a Mood

I love that technique because it's poetic. That run-on sentence has a subtext to it that is like a poem. The length of your sentences, the first sentence of glamour in glass, which I've had to handwrite into so many books because it was left out. It tells you immediately the pace of the book. There are a few things in this world that can simultaneously delight and dismay in the same manner as a formal dinner party. This is very long, it's very formal. And it says you are in for something that is slower paced. Whereas do you remember the first sentence off the top of your head? A devil’s only friend. Yeah,.

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