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How to write a brilliant anything

How to write a brilliant anything

By Meg Rosoff on 27 June 2011

I was looking for the quote about letting the audience add up two plus two themselves (it turns out not to be Wilder, but Ernst Lubitsch), and I found this fantastic list.  Although it’s written for screenwriters, if there’s anything on it that doesn’t apply to writing novels, I’ll eat my hat. Yes, the famous [...]

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