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Reflections of a working writer and reader

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am. Roland Barthes

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How To Get Published

If the tale cannot be printed as it is written, down to the very last semicolon and comma, it must gracefully accept rejection. Excision by editors is probably the one reason why no living American author has any real prose style…

HP Lovecraft

Michael Berry has published five writing lessons from Lovecraft, together with his own commentary. Funny, and offering advice which is rarely found elsewhere.

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