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World Building: Vonnegut’s Advice to Writers

Vonnegut’s Advice in Tacoma In 1986 or so I attended a lecture given by Kurt Vonnegut at Pacific Lutheran University. It was a “Creative Writing” conference, and he was the keynote speaker. After an...

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Falcon Chicks Hate Prologues

The Sucker Punch of Speculative Fiction Novels I think the falcon-chick affect (see preceding post for explanation of this syndrome) is why a writer’s first novel generally doesn’t have a prologue. For...

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