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Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Calm Characters Generally Haven Interesting Legs Make Protagonists Some Stretching

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In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.

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Topics: Brings Close Conflict Each Either Loss Particular Scene Sets Situation Small Up Victory Well Which Writer

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A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

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Topics: Characteristic Distinguishing Does Example For Example Need Novel Short Short Story Story

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It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About After Discern Few Good Novelist Only Place Training Truth Try

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In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Also Any Beef City Great Had Headquarters Learned Midwestern Mile More National New New York Our Per Salads Square Target Than Theaters York

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What's Denver's feel? I know there're mountains, and people in western hats, but I never got a good sense of the city.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: City Denver Feel Good Good Sense Got Hats Know Mountains Never People Sense Western

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Often it's the people who know a place least well who write about it best because they see it fresh.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Because Best Fresh Know Least Often People Place See Well Who Write

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A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Anything Average Bland Bring Cooking Course Depict Families Good Good Writer Her Knows Lives Living Novelists Off Okay Perceptions Really She Style Subjects Those Towns Writer

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Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Because Bring Ever Get Interesting Light Little Lives Maybe Memoirs Million Often Pieces Popular Trouble World Writes

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Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Best Even Lines Novels Share

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1970

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