Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

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New Year Stuff

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Lucas Mangum
Jan 02, 2023
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I’ve spent much of the week reading Donald Maas’ Writing the Breakout Novel. I owned the workbook version a decade or so ago and even did some of the exercises, but back then, I still didn’t know who I was as a writer (or a person, really), so I’m not sure I even grasped it. The book is twenty years old now (I’m actually writing this newsletter on the t…

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