Writing Isn't About Being Clever; It's About Story

One of my favorite writing exercises is super simple. I take a bunch of novelists and ask them: What is your protagonists more afraid...

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I come from a theater background—a sort of. Basically, I spent a lot of my time singing and dancing and acting (badly) when I...