Freed From Behind the Paywall: How to Sneak in the Boring Bits
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Ten Shun!
Alfred Hitchcock said movies are like ‘life with the boring bits left out’. Unfortunately, certainly in novels, some boring bits have to be left in. This is inevitable because you have to get INFORMATION across - in between all the sparkling dialogue and writerly insight and poetic language.
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