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... feel a slump coming on : writing ability isn't a shallow pan of water . It doesn't evaporate sud- denly , and it doesn't dry up or get used out . ( Investigate the few cases of writers who've " written themselves out " and vanished from ...
... feel a slump coming on : writing ability isn't a shallow pan of water . It doesn't evaporate sud- denly , and it doesn't dry up or get used out . ( Investigate the few cases of writers who've " written themselves out " and vanished from ...
Page 193
... feel that it often offends readers of the same race or nationality , and they feel that it is usually hard to follow and therefore disliked by most readers . It is about 95 per cent impossible to sell a story told entirely in dialect ...
... feel that it often offends readers of the same race or nationality , and they feel that it is usually hard to follow and therefore disliked by most readers . It is about 95 per cent impossible to sell a story told entirely in dialect ...
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... feel it clearly , too long dissociation puts the writer too far away from it to see and feel it clearly . The author can never become entirely objective about his story - as , for example , an editor seeing it for the first time would ...
... feel it clearly , too long dissociation puts the writer too far away from it to see and feel it clearly . The author can never become entirely objective about his story - as , for example , an editor seeing it for the first time would ...
Contents
Your place in the writing business | 3 |
The intelligent approach | 14 |
What editors buy | 28 |
Copyright | |
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