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Tropes determine who will read your book; themes determine who will love it—or hate it. Themes hold incredible power. They are timeless, having existed since the dawn of civilization, and won’t lose their grip on our minds anytime soon. Use them with mastery and care.
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― Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career
― Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career
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To live, fiction must be read, and to be read it must be enjoyed. Why do so many people talk about the number of times they’ve lost interest in a book after a couple of chapters, or only “toughed it out” to the end out of a sense of obligation? I’d say it’s because too many writers have forgotten that the writer’s job isn’t merely to express himself, it’s to reach a reader. That doesn’t mean pandering to the lowest common denominator. But it does mean that even a work of smart, thoughtful fictio
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