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#1 Creative Writing? Shine a light on the Facts

#1 Creative Writing? Shine a light on the Facts

Facts Ground You In Reality

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Dec 18, 2023
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Even a fictitious story about ‘life growing out of splinters of wood in a far off galaxy’ has to keep to the facts in the author’s imagination. These points of ‘truth’ found only in that galaxy need …

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