Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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One-sentence stories, a 6 word review, and a challenge
Short-form writing

One-sentence stories, a 6 word review, and a challenge

Short-form writing #2

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Greetings!

Welcome to this (relatively) new series, short-form writing. Short-form writing is often hard to pull off, because there’s no safety net, so to speak. For example, if you’re asked — or ask yourself— to write a book review and have a word limit of 3,000 words, there’s a real danger that you could get lost in a sea of your own erudition1. But giv…

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