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One Perfect Story: Chris Jones on "The Things That Carried Him"

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The Importance of Facts in a Story

"We're cutting 5,000 words about it. The standard for a sentence was that it had to have a fact in it," he said. "And so that story is really just a straight ahead account of what happened" He added: "It's an objective piece of writing, as I think you can do"

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