I am giving a craft talk next week & I know appallingly little about how writers do things (least of all myself). What should I talk about?
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The most important message is that one can learn to do these things better by practicing them intelligently. Plots can always be stolen. Moving language can be broken down into its rhetorical and poetical elements, which are relatively easy to understand. Useful patterns exist.
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For a friendly introduction to rhetorical devices, Mark Forsyth is a useful guide: http://bit.ly/2OM922E For a sense of the scope and use of the poetical repertoire of English, start with Dr Seuss, and move on to A E Housman: http://bit.ly/2CMxriW
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