I tried to integrate everything I read or heard into a Grand Unified Understanding of Craft — but, as I slogged through drafts, I found there is no Grand Unified Understanding, only a particular, specific body of craft which belongs only to me.
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Dear Friends, When I first dreamed up this newsletter in late summer, I had grand ambitions: I would read a novel just for this newsletter every month …
thoughts on narrative structure ("Meander, Spiral, Explode" and "Cannery Row")
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