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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.

Akhil Sharma

Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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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.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.
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Certainly Detail Different How Life Someone Spend Think Thinking Unique
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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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Causing Difficult Disengage Physical Reader Writing
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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Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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Assume Community Female Many Person Reader Same Sophisticated
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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Important Mean Narrative Need Sense Thing Writing
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don’t try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.
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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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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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