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The Importance of Craft in Writing

"There are so many things that I wish I could do better," she says. "I have lucked into being in a position where I can get away with, in large measure, not doing a lot of that stuff" Lee Child is an example all the time in her writing classes because he is so precise about the thing that he's trying to do,. It may not be as aesthetically beautiful as Cormac McCarthy for a certain set of taste, but boy is it effective and you can learn a lot from watching how someone like that accomplishes it.

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