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Four Sentences

“There was a man” is a profoundly different sentence than “There was an old man,” which is profoundly different than “There was, back when we lived in the blue house, a man down the street from us, down toward Graves Avenue.” And that last one is different than “There was in those days an elder

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Online Feedback: Part II

I’ve said this before, and now I’m going to say it again.
Maybe not so nicely this time.

When your friend approaches you with a manuscript, hot off the printer and dripping ink, and your friend says to you “Hey, you! (says your friend to you) Tell me what you think of the choices I’ve (that

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Character Truth Versus Narrative Truth

So you want me to believe that Johnny killed Jimmy so that he could have Jenny, free and uncontested, but you also need Jimmy to be alive at some point in time when it will most surprise Johnny (and Jenny, who are both quite flagrantly delicto at the time). If you tell me that Johnny

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