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Building a Plot–A Guest Blog by Jordan Rosenfeld

Posted by Shonna Slayton  Published in Craft

In the competitive world of writing programs and the marketing end of publishing, plot-driven writing, often referred to by the glib word ‘commercial’—as if it is designed to sell you something—is sneered at. Literary writing—where ontological investigations of the self and existence flow out of characters in lyrical prose—is the glowing standard to which all [...]

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