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Writing Tips: The Anatomy Of Genres With John Truby

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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Writer of Literary Fiction

The biggest challenge for writers of literary fiction is coming up with a plot that will engage the reader enough to get across those larger elements of theme and character you want to express. The story structure in literary fiction is not included in this book because technically speaking, it's not a genre. But if you were to look at stories that we normally think of as Literary Fiction, they are typically personal dramas.

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