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just about every story starts with a cliché. A cliché is simply something that’s so familiar that it feels old hat. It’s the story’s job to make it, um, new hat. As Samuel Johnson so aptly pointed out, “The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.”4
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)
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