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To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - t...

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C. S. LewisOn Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictiona...

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You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships....

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In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what h...

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