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Seeing the Extraordinary in the Ordinary – A Novelist’s Desired Trait

I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals Dostoevsky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away … Continue reading

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Publisher-Author Power Struggle – Part II

In Part I of  Publisher-Author Power Struggle we traveled back in literary history to a time when authors held a great deal of power over their works. We then saw how that power eroded and all but disappeared. In Part … Continue reading

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