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The Time Is Now Writing Prompts and Exercises

Suggested Reading: Who Says? Mastering Point of View in Fiction (Norton, February 2021) by Lisa Zeidner

An in-depth examination of one of the most critical choices fac ing writers of fict ion, novelist Lisa Zeidner’s craft manual includes hundreds of examples from both classic and contemporary fiction—from Emily Brontë’s to Lorrie Moore’s “Two Boys”—to explore how plot, characters, descriptions, and even distinctions

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