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This Year You Write Your Novel
sensations When experiencing life, we often have physical sensations.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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Many writers, and teachers of writing, spend so much time comparing work to past masters that they lose the contemporary voice of the novel being created on this day.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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Overuse of metaphorical language will test a novel’s credibility.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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Making emotions physical or imagistic helps bring your reader more deeply into the story.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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And it’s not only human beings that are transformed by metaphor; anything in the writer’s realm can also be something else.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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The metaphor helps broaden the appreciation of the reader.
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The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer’s greatest enemy.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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Other voices are possible. Novels have been written entirely in the first-person plural, told entirely by an unspecified we. Others address the reader as “you” throughout. But these are idiosyncratic and challenging approaches to storytelling.
from This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley
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