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384 A Writer's Tools - Top 10 Literary Terms and Devices | PLUS F. Scott Fitzgerald's Writing Advice

The History of Literature

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The Price for Doing Professional Work Is a Good Deal Higher Than You Are Prepared to Pay

Ernest hemingway's first stories in our time went right down to the bottom of all that he had ever felt and known in this side of paradise. It was necessary for dickens to put into oliver twist the child's passionate resentment at being abused and starved. That had haunted his whole childhood. I wrote about a love affair that was still bleeding as fresh as the skin wound on a hemophile. The amateur, seeing how the professional, having learned all that he'll ever learn about writing, can take trivial thing, such as the most superficial reactions of three uncharacterized girls, and make it witty and charming, the amateur thinks he or she can do same. This

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