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"This is a good book. But after a strong start, I’m starting to find it a bit unfocused and disorganized.
I’ve started ignoring the supposed “links” stated at the beginning of each section, as much of the information provided in those sections are focused on other issues that don’t relate back to the stated thesis of each section." — Sep 08, 2026 05:31AM
"This is a good book. But after a strong start, I’m starting to find it a bit unfocused and disorganized.
I’ve started ignoring the supposed “links” stated at the beginning of each section, as much of the information provided in those sections are focused on other issues that don’t relate back to the stated thesis of each section." — Sep 08, 2026 05:31AM
“You can decorate absence however you want- but your still gonna feel what’s missing.”
― Same Difference
― Same Difference
“Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.”
― The List
― The List
“Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn’t grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story… to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.”
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“Well, you know, I've been in so many writing workshops, writing classes, and to the right of me and to the left of me, there's always somebody much more talented than I am. And what I figured out is they're not willing to go through the rejection, which is enormous, and then the compromise that comes with, you know, editing your work. And so I decided a long time ago that I didn't have to be 'talented'; I just had to be persistent, and that that was something I could control. The persistence.”
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“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
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