The Ethics of Writing About War
War fascinates, denigrates, and populates. Its core appeal and its turnoff is violence. It is...
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War fascinates, denigrates, and populates. Its core appeal and its turnoff is violence. It is...
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Fiction writers use the term “voice” differently than journalists, lawyers, physicians, or...
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The prefix “ex” is a preposition and means “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,”...
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Cryptomnesia. That’s a mouthful to say, dicey to write, and virtually unrecognizable in the...
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We all do it—writers everywhere, every day. We write ambiguously. Mostly we do it in draft, by...
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