Tag: kurt-vonnegut
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Vonnegut: Narrative Arcs and Why We Love Drama
For millennia we have told and absorbed fantastic stories with simple yet strong narrative structures, and the structure of these stories is in contrast to the much less erratic “plots” of our own lives. This discrepancy between the dramas present in our stories and our real lives causes many of us to create unnecessary and…
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Kurt Vonnegut: Advice to Writers
Author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, offers us advice on How to Write With Style: Find a subject you care about Do not ramble, though Keep it simple Have guts to cut Sound like yourself Say what you mean Pity the readers