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nuxvomica

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1. I try to follow Ursula K. Le Guin's advice to always have action with dialogue
Mon May 24, 2021, 11:38 AM
May 2021

But I'll check out the article later. Thanks for posting! I've been playing with an interesting writing tip lately: Never start a sentence with the word "the". Especially the first one in a paragraph. It's not that such sentences are bad but the tip forces you to be more imaginative in sentence structure; basically an anti-laziness remedy.

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