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The Write Advice 029: ANNIE PROULX


A lot of the work I do is taking the bare sentence that says what you sort of want to say — which is where a lot of writers stop — and making it into an arching kind of thing that has both strength and beauty.  And that is where the sweat comes in.  That can take a long time and many revisions.  A single sentence, particularly a long, involved one, can carry a story forward.  I put a lot of time into them.  Carefully constructed sentences cast a tint of indefinable substance over a story.

The Art of Fiction #199 [The Paris Review #188, Spring 2009)

 

 

Use the link below to read more about the work of North American novelist ANNIE PROULX:

 

https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Annie-Proulx/8544

 

 

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