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Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
from Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut
“A story-teller must tell his story in such a way that the reader will not feel that his time has been wasted.”
from Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane:
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
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