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The Power of Words, Part IV: Temperature

Posted on 12. June 2014 by Nancy Pinard

In a manuscript workshop I recently conducted, a participant submitted a story in which the antagonist chose the dark side after being forced by his government captors to watch his daughter’s burning at the stake. The scene had lots of … Continue reading →

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The Power of Words, Part II: Things

Posted on 2. June 2014 by Nancy Pinard

–Say it, no ideas but in things– nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident– split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained– secret–into the body of the light! from Paterson: Book I That’s … Continue reading →

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