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Story Junkie

Bryan Furuness.com

  • About
  • Writing
    • The Lost Episodes: A Novel
    • Do Not Go On: A Novel
    • Short Work
    • Press Kit
  • Editing
    • Winesburg, Indiana (anthology)
    • My Name was Never Frankenstein (anthology)
    • An Indiana Christmas (anthology)
    • The Invisible Art of Literary Editing
    • On Earth As it Is
    • Press Kit
  • Teaching
    • CV
    • 12 Day Kickstart
      • Overview
      • Day One: Twelve Boxes
      • Day Two: Freewriting
      • Day Three: Mother Dough
      • Day Four: Idea Starter #2
      • Day Five: Mapping
      • Day Six: Loop the Loop
      • Day Seven: Notes Toward a Draft
      • Day Eight: Shitty First Draft
      • Day Nine: Breaking into Fiction #1
      • Day Ten: Breaking into Fiction #2—Surreal Boogaloo
      • Day Eleven: One-Inch Frame
      • Day Twelve: The Best Laid Plans of Squids and Men
    • Revision Regimen
      • Overview
      • Day One: A Working Definition
      • Day Two: A Case Study
      • Day 3: Holistic View
      • Day 4: Re-Type
      • Day 5: Map
      • Day 6: Again, Again
      • Day 7: Lenses
      • Day 8: Cut
      • Day 9: Polish
      • Day 10: Compare
  • Notes on Creativity

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Posted on September 5, 2016

Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

David Foster Wallace (via writingdotcoffee)

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