Podcast: Cheap writing tricks

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Recorded27 Jan 2014

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Here’s a reading of my latest Locus column, Cheap Writing Tricks, which discusses the mysterious business of why stories are satisfying, and how to make them so: Plots are funny things. In the real world, stuff is always happening, but it’s not a plot. People live. People die. People are made glorious or miserable. Things... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2014/01/27/podcast-cheap-writing-tricks/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Cheap writing tricks">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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