Bonus: Andrew Lipstein Reads Excerpts from ‘Last Resort’ on Storybound
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
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The Last Manuscript - A Memoir
"I saw los angeles as a black hole for my checking account, and all i wanted to do was get away from it," says author. "All the strokes of genius that turned out to be pretentiousness ... All the emotional depth that was actually sentimentality." A switch from third person to first would have let him tell the story truthfully, allowing the protagonist flaws to show, if not unintentionally. But flaws needd sympathy, and there was hardly anything to feel sympathetic about sophia is going to eventually reveal her plans for uthanasia.
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