I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.
AKHIL SHARMAWhile a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.
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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.
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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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