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Great Opening Lines: Make a Big Promise

Guidance, Good Writing and Writers, Heart of WritingJames BuchananFebruary 4, 2016Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, great opening lines, novels, fiction, nonfictionComment

Revising for Show Don't Tell

Characterization, GuidanceJames BuchananNovember 25, 2015Revision, writing, fiction, nonfiction, narrative, narrative nonfiction, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, funny storyComment

Know When to Stop

GuidanceJames BuchananJune 15, 2015John Steinbeck, write but don't finish, let the spring fill the well, Ernest Hemingway, Mary Karr, when to stop writing, writing adviceComment