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21. John David Mann: How To Write Good (Or At Least, Gooder)

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What if That Guy Were a Gorilla?

Don winslow is one of my favorite writers. He's an amazing rite, but a his, his most famous book probably is the border. But he came out win as series of six short stories called broken. One of them, he says, years ago he was working with a crewton some fence ti et and ah, he said, he is notoriously clumsy with tools and terrible with tools. And i guess he had his hands on a chain saw at one point. And one of the guys in the crew said, handing winslow a chain chain saw is like giving a gun to a chimpan sap. Boom. Where do you come up with that idea? We it was just happyin

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