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Fabulous Writing Books to Help You Write a Book

Fabulous Writing Books to Help You Write a Book

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jul 05, 2008
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Vivian Gornick talks about “the situation and the story”—the two elements of good prose. What happens and why it happens. Because of her simplicity in describing this complex idea, The Situation and the Story became one of the truly influential writing books in my life.

Carol Bly’s The Passionate, Accurate Writer taught me about writing of consequence an…

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