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Resources for Writing a Potent "Inner Story" in Your Book

Resources for Writing a Potent "Inner Story" in Your Book

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Mary Carroll Moore
May 16, 2014
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{This post also appeared earlier this week as a guest blog on Grub Street Daily.}

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 first truly influential writing books in my …

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