Category: Story
fiction and other truths
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We writers hold it in such low regard. Yes, I know, a strong verb has more muscle than a modifier. “He yelled,” packs more punch than: “He said loudly.” And yet, listening to my nephew Logan reading the opening pages of a “Harry Potter” book this past holiday, I was struck by how fond J.K.…
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Props today to E.M. Forster. We know his great novels, mostly because of the movies “A Passage to India” and “A Room With a View. ” But I love Forster for his lovely “Aspects of the Novel,” which is the best book about writing that I know. An excerpt: “Yes–oh, dear, yes–the novel tells a…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 