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“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
― Robert Frost
I have never agreed with a quote so much as this by Robert Frost. When working in sales and marketing, presentations had a start, middle, and end. I've discovered that when writing a novel, these principles do not apply.
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A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)

by George R.R. Martin

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Arctic Convoys: 1941-1945

by Richard Woodman

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The Great War Explained

by Philip Stevens

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