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There are all kinds of adages and edicts for novelists through the years: "Show, don't tell," and "Write what you know," being the two that seem to be bandied about all the time.

I only have one:

"Do what works."

That's as much dogma as I can stand in terms of writing fiction, although I certainly wrestle at times with all the others that come down ( Read more... )