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“If I was a painter … I don’t paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair.” — Art of Quotation

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A record … is a statement, it’s its own statement, its own entity, rather than being about something else. If I was a painter … I don’t paint the chair, I would paint feelings about the chair. Bob Dylan, poet via “If I was a painter … I don’t paint…

The Puzzling Prologue Problem — A Writer’s Path

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Go ahead, Google something along the lines of prologues in novels. I’ll wait. Done? If so, you’ll have found links like 7 Deadly Sins of Prologues, The Worst Ways to Begin Your Novel: Advice from Literary Agents, The Dreaded Prologue, Question: the oft-maligned prologue, and so on. Read these…