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Writing Advice: Believability is best of all

March 1, 2023March 8, 2023 ~ thomas

The moral I guess is this: Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all.

William Goldman – Adventures in the Screen Trade

Or, here is Seamus Heaney:

How does the real get into the made-up?

Ask me an easier one,

From the poem “Known World” in Electric Light
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