It's alive or it's dead
21st March 2017 | for Creatives | writing, reaching your audience, editors, storytelling, Shawn Coyne |
"A Story either works or doesn't work. It either engages the reader or it doesn't. It's alive or it's dead, like our mongooses. And the last thing an editor wants to do is kill a living Story, no matter how mangy."
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