Writerly Fantasies

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I want to write a literary thriller featuring an intrepid character named Paige Turner. I want impatience to be widely recognized as a genuine editing tool. I want to write an entire book, maybe a series, without using the word was. Sometimes telling is required, but don’t tell us what to feel — make it impossible for us not to feel.

I want to invent the perfect man on the page and then run into him while
he stands in line at a…