5 things I wished I knew when I started writing fiction

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Here are some takeaways from spending way too much time writing stories.

Hopefully they will help you to be more productive as you spend too much time writing or reading stories on your own.

1. How you describe something can amplify or undo a reader’s view of what happens.

A terrifying monster is never ‘frazzled’, unless you want to laugh at him.
The lumberjack rarely prances, unless he’s in a Monty Python song.
And the Lorax never rampag...