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Posts Tagged misconceptions

Check your assumptions…at the door.

On July 28, 2009   /   General, Reading  
Tags: misconceptions, my work

Every so often, I have an encounter with readers (usually academics, but sometimes not) who are happy to tell me, in detail and at great length, all the reasons why I wrote something, or wrote it in this or that particular way. (Usually because they object to

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There is no One True Way

On June 4, 2009   /   Writing  
Tags: basic writing, Da Rulez, how-to, misconceptions

One of the things you find a lot in writing books are prescriptions:  This is THE (only right and workable best) way to write/develop a career as a writer. And they’re wrong. Or so I think, anyway. There is no One True Way to write. (This is

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