Daniel Keys Moran on Nostr: Always liked this one, only one note: "pause to appreciate a beautifully written ...
Always liked this one, only one note:
"pause to appreciate a beautifully written sentence."
I stopped trying to write great sentences very early in my career. That pause takes you out of the story. A great sentence, for my purposes, is invisible. A novel is not poetry.
Your mileage is welcome to vary.
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