Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different

I’d tell you to write a story in which a jaded on-air appraiser is asked to confirm the value of a cursed monkey’s paw…a shrunken head…the Holy Grail.

All of your framing devices are there and need no invention. As a final

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Truisms

So if you were my student, I’d ask you, “Who’s telling this? Where are they telling it? And why are they telling it?”