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“It’s okay if your work is fun for you. . . . It’s also okay if your work is healing for you, or fascinating for you, or redemptive for you, or if it’s maybe just a hobby that keeps you from going crazy. It’s even okay if your work is totally frivolous. That’s allowed. It’s …
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A host of posts worth bookmarking. On Reading It’s Short Story Month at Fiction Writers Review. Here’s a bit of what you can look forward to if you stop by their blog: The return of our popular “Stories We Love” blog posts: writers on the stories that inspire them—and why Book of the Week giveaways …
From The Forest for the Trees: “Everything you put on the page is a deliberate manipulation of what happened, written to keep the reader entertained, moved, sympathetic, horrified, scared, whatever. You are never writing what really happened. Instead, you are choosing words, building images, creating a rhythm, sense, and structure through which to move your …