Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write..

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the ficti….

You might ask yourself why you want to surprise your readers in the first place. A surprise ending is sort of like a surprise party. Probably some pe….

Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk ….

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read..

Arithmetic is the death of story..

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining..