February 2012
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“Hands are not about politics / this is a poem about love / and fingers / fingers...”
– Sarah Kay
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“If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Vonnegut's Eight Rules for Writing Short Fiction
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
Start as close to the end as possible.
Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and...
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