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Inherent to Dictionary Stories is the question of what makes an ideal sentence that best reveals the meaning of a word.
In a previous blog post, I mentioned my difficulty with conflict and tension. For this reason, I love triangular relationships, which bring up conflicting desires, competing loyalties, and dilemmas. All the things that make a juicy story go. When I was just starting out writing fiction, when my writing tended to be a formless blob…
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