Let’s talk about penises. (Everyone awake? Okay then.) Doing a completely unscientific search of the blogs and twitterers I follow, I note that Getting the Reader’s Attention is a top priority. If you don’t get the reader’s interest early, they are going to put the book down and never look at you again. I wanted…
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On the Road is a road trip story. (Any objections?) I’m sure the influence of this experimental novel, with its meandering structure, has been the bane of many a writing teacher’s existance. I’m basing this assumption on the fact that my writing teacher, David Keplinger, took the time during a class to discuss road trip stories and the…
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