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Analysis of Guitar

by Abby Caplin after May Swenson It’s aboutfingers,strings,frets,plucks,andstrums. Fingerspressstringsto neck,abovefrets.Otherhand’sfingers,or thumb,pluck andstrum. Sometimes fretfingers are weak, don’tpress hard enough (zzzz)or want to wobble and cry(wah-wah-wah-wah). Orthey pull the string to make          it ring. Strings stretch            across neck, wait             for finger to press              hard or make like             a hammer. Some-          times strings…

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Advice to Writers: Stephen King on the Craft of Short Story Writing

Bestselling author Stephen King discusses the art of writing short stories and short fiction in this video interview, and speaks about how many new writers forgo writing short stories to focus on writing a novel, sometimes before they are ready to navigate “the quagmire of the novel.”  

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