“Do it for the plot”
—Source: Mental Floss
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Quotation
“The Transcendence of Writing Your Fears”
I don’t write fiction, but I do read a lot of it. All that reading has made me think that the very first question fiction writers must ask themselves is Whose story is this to tell? Writer Elaine Hsieh Chou suggests a similar thought in a recent interview: And Chou’s quotation further suggests that examining
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Thomas Perry on Writing
Popular and critically acclaimed novelist Thomas Perry, best known for The Butcher’s Boy (1982) and the Jane Whitefield series, has died.
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On Crime Novels & Thrillers
#bookstodon #reading #CrimeFiction #mysteries #thrillers
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Quotation: “Whitman’s Multitudes”
If humans contain Whitman’s multitudes, novels also have the possibility to contain multitudes, and they should. —Gabrielle Zevin, “Cloud Atlas at 20: What makes a novel tattoo-worthy
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12 Novels That Changed How I Read Fiction
Other posts in this series: Introduction Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin, which was the starting point for this month’s 6 Degrees of Separation post, was My Most Surprising Read of 2022. I can’t remember the last time a novel made me cry, but this one did. Thinking about why Zevin’s book hit me
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