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   William Vetter to All   
   Re: storytelling: talent or skill?   
   23 Jun 14 14:22:42   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   The POV character is unhappy about her pregnancy and hates her situation.  All   
   of the things you all have said are true.  Here is a somewhat different mode   
   of interpretation: her overreaction to the remark of a casual acquaintance   
   (she doesn't know the    
   tennis guy's wife's name) is a displacement of her own hatred at her pregnancy.   
      
   These literary genre writers want to indicate characters' emotion in ways they   
   think are sophisticated.  Pretty much they want to write about emotion.  Maybe   
   writers in other genres use them, but probably they don't reach after them so   
   much.   
      
   I have a manuscript with a lot of lost cat flyers in it.  Some of them I am   
   trying to use these literary writers' techniques in, because I want to be cool   
   too.   
      
      
   This thread is interesting, like one I started on a stock website, NAME THAT   
   FISH.  I'd post antique trophy photos of people posed alongside their giant   
   fish.  Alligator gar, Goliath Grouper, buffalo carp, New Zealand shortfin   
   eel.  The retirees there    
   loved it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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