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#4: good writing means leaving things out

Posted in: 2022 Posted on January 17, 2022March 25, 2023 Posted in: details, writing
https://chrt.fm/track/CFE4F1/www.buzzsprout.com/1912968/9901296-4-good-writing-means-leaving-things-out.mp3

Wayne discusses the importance of a type of spareness in writing fiction, and cites a short story by Raymond Carver, novels by Vladimir Nabokov, a song by Leonard Cohen, and two movies (Unforgiveable and Glengarry Glen Ross)—to illustrate his points.

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