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Andrew Smith's avatar

Beginnings matter a great deal! I write nonfiction, but they're every bit as important for people like me as they are for short-story writers and the like. I've really turned a lot of my attention to those openings, making it compelling from the start. I use all of these tactics.

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Amanda Saint's avatar

Yes I'm a journalist as well as fiction writer and apply all the things I've learned about story structure in fiction to my articles too.

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