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  • So You Want to Write in the Second Person

    Craft lessons from stories by Blair Hurley, Gabrielle Hovendon, and Ladi Opaluwa

    Jun 30 - Electric Literature
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    We Need To Talk About First Person Plural

    What stories by Ha Jin, Anthony Tognozzini, and Joshua Harmon can teach us about writing in the "we" voice

    May 28 - Electric Literature
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    How to Turn Real-Life Isolation Into Fiction

    The third installment of Read Like a Writer, Recommended Reading's series on the craft of fiction

    Apr 28 - Electric Literature
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    How To Use Dramatic Irony for More Than Shenanigans

    The second installment of Read Like a Writer, Recommended Reading's series on the craft of fiction

    Mar 31 - Electric Literature
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    How to Write an Ending that is Surprising Yet Inevitable

    The first installment of Read Like a Writer, a new Recommended Reading series about the craft of fiction

    Feb 13 - Halimah Marcus
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