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Profitable Ideas: When the American Dream is a Money Pit, The Economics of Friendship, and More
Weekly list of curated personal finance articles from around the web.
Real estate won’t make you feel rich (Use Your Wealth). Many first-time homebuyers vastly underestimate the ongoing costs of owning home.
DraftKings intentionally creates gambling addicts, new lawsuit alleges (Daily Citizen). I have mixed feelings about this one. We’re responsible for our own actions, but there’s also quite an eff
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“Another unnecessary usage is what’s called an expletive construction—look for “there is,” “there are,” “there were”—which can be fixed simply by finding the stronger subject within the existing sentence and giving it a better verb to work with: “There were several new clues in the starlet’s hotel room” could be written as “The starlet’s hotel room offered up several new clues.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
“Remember that characters don’t need to rehash information the reader’s already learned, even if one person needs to update another. “The detective told the captain what they’d learned at the slaughterhouse” is as effective as an in-scene recounting of it, up to the point where the captain starts asking questions or offering new information.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
“Remember also that people rarely say what they mean, and they often talk over each other without listening.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
