Will Strauss
Will Strauss
borrowing few narrative novelist techniques tricks
If the memoirist is borrowing narrative techniques from fiction, shouldn't the novelist borrow a few tricks from successful non-fiction?
easier memoir
Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
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This hybrid notion of using the 2002 numbers -- we're going to use appeals and were going to fuss around in between the next reassessment, which we don't know when its going to be -- I just think is not going to withstand judicial scrutiny.
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These are well-crafted stories and compelling characters. No matter what time period they're in, we think those elements are magnetic.
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Don't even think about it and just do it. If you don't, you'll be regretting it the rest of the weekend.
branded
They're so logo-washed, so heavily branded when they are young,
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I just can't imagine a guy who's made more than 70 international centuries turning up at Lord's and getting booed.
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A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
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The city is giving us what amounts to $60,000 for acquisition and repairs (per house). So if it costs us $100,000 and we borrow $40,000 for purchase and repairs, then we sell it at fair market value for $85,000. We pay that $40,000 back and we've got another $45,000 and plow it back into another house.
invented
I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
guess people
I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories.
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In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.
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It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
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Investors are having to deal with the reality of lower corporate profits. And the stock market is starting to feel that impact.