Mar 31 2007

Vonnegut’s rules

Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction (ironically) five is my favorite, “Start as close to the end as possible.”

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Posted on Sat, 31 March 2007 at 7:25 pm

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