Monthly Archives: September 2010

S. W. ALBERT’S CROWD CONTROL

One of my students once introduced more than a dozen characters in the first five pages of the novel she’d started. “Don’t do that!” I shouted. “It’s so confusing!” But of course, I’ve made the same mistake. For example, in … Continue reading

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Stieg Larsson’s Girl

Recently, I stalled out on page 124 of The Girl Who Played with Fire, the second in Stieg Larsson’s best-selling series, in which the author presents the annual board meeting of the Millennium, the journal the book’s male protagonist works … Continue reading

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