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'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Great opening lines are easy to recognize and surprisingly hard to analyze. Here's what they're actually doing — and how to use that understanding in your own writing.
Most writers use 'story' and 'plot' interchangeably. They're not the same thing, and the confusion between them is responsible for more manuscript problems than almost any other misunderstanding in fiction writing. Here's the distinction, why it matters, and how to use it.
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