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Tessa Barron
- Feb 3, 2021
- 8 min
What Makes a Great Short Story?
Short stories are like wild animals, and novels are house pets.
House pets have lots of variation, but they are still almost always recogniz
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Tessa Barron
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
5 reasons to love the world-building in Robert Jackson Bennet's Foundryside
So here are 5 reasons why Foundryside has some of the best fantasy world-building you will see.
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Tessa Barron
- Nov 28, 2020
- 4 min
Juxtaposition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly...and the beautiful...cuz contrast
Just as an artist knows that a piece needs contrast to be engaging, a good writer knows that a book needs contrast to engage the reader.
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Tessa Barron
- Sep 23, 2019
- 8 min
What You Can Learn from Joe Abercrombie’s The Heroes
Here’s what we can learn from Abercrombie: Pacing, Narrative, and Cadence. Here's how he does it.
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