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Tag: Aristotle and Dante

Characters and Comfort Zones

July 30, 2014 A. B. Westrick 6 Comments

My agent recently had this to say about my current work-in-progress: she couldn’t identify with my main character and couldn’t…

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Filed under: All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr, Aristotle and Dante, Benjamin Alire Saenz, character, comfort zone, craft, hook, literature, manuscript, process, revision, story, writing

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