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Page 72 about how the editors think they own the title. “The title is an integral part of a piece of writing and one of the most important parts and ought to not be written by anyone but the writer of what follows the title.”
— Aug 03, 2026 06:04PM
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“You will never land smoothly on borrowed vividness. If you say someone looks like Tom Cruise - and you let it go at that - you are asking tom cruise to do your writing for you. Your description will fail when your reader doesn’t know who tom cruise is.” Page 120.
— Aug 10, 2026 06:31PM
Ezra Haddock
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Pg 77. “Id have managed what turned out to be eight thousand words of a Shawn-wise beginning before I had to start over and eat that weasel.”
The concept that writing, being a writer, prolongs the experience. The three parts of the experience. The anticipation, the actual event, and the reminiscing. As McPhee shows, writing keeps events in the present tense.
— Aug 03, 2026 06:55PM
The concept that writing, being a writer, prolongs the experience. The three parts of the experience. The anticipation, the actual event, and the reminiscing. As McPhee shows, writing keeps events in the present tense.