... a lot of attention to it. If one is writing in the modern world, this isn’t so much of a problem. One can presume one’s readers will ... and text messaging because he’d never, ever lived in a world without them. One can, occasionally get away with this sort of thing by ...
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Search again:... The same thing can happen to adult writers; the plots and worlds and characters and problems I was deeply interested in when I was in ... writer has taken so long to write the story that the real world has overtaken his premise. This one is a problem for people who do ...
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