“...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.”
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Living for the writing class she teaches at the university extension, reclusive widow Amy Gallup senses something different about her latest group of students when she begins to receive scary phone calls and obscene threats that culminate in a murder.
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Jincy Willett
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“...(W)here there's drama, there's crap.”
“Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.”
“Arithmetic is the death of story.”
“(N)ot writing was hard work, almost as hard as writing.”
“All plots are cliche.”
“(T)hey were at ease with each other, which was essential to a productive workshop.”
“(D)ialogue 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 to each other we never actually expl...”
“(T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like g...”
“Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.”