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Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 15

Death Of 1000 Cuts

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The Importance of Biography in a Novel

It's like having someone gored through the pancreas by a bull's dextral horn then writing Lawrence had eaten Spanish omelet. almost everyone who has ever lived has also had that's swept up into the big backpack or assumptions you can rely on your readers to schlep into the story. spending winters in northern India makes one used to the cold so I don't like the formulation one in this sentence it's oddly clinical and distant It makes your third person orator sound like a smug kernel angling for a peerage more importantly while this is interesting biographical detail you haven't worked it in naturally it drops into the story with a resonant clang we don't

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