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Using the Psychology of Resistance for Vivid Narrative Writing

Resistance is basic to living. So basic that when you touch something, the electrons in your hand repel the electrons of the touched surface. When you push an object, it pushes back: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is one reason resistance creates a sense of realism in fiction. Writing

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Writing Fiction: The Problem of Trying to Please

My college creative writing teacher said he had known a renowned writer who had written a terrible book. It was so abominable, he said, that anyone in his entire class of beginners could have done much better. It was so bad that my teacher had avoided the writer at a party and refused to speak to

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