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What I got from this piece is that you rarely ever want to turn it up to 11.

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You gotta earn that extra notch on the dial!

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Excellent advice, very accessible and love the explanation through sharing your own story's use of it.

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Thanks!

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This is great stuff. I write exclusively nonfiction, and I write every day (not a novel for sure! pretty short, around 1000 words total per piece). Nevertheless, I use these tips almost every day, or think about them very week for sure. Pacing is really important, and grabbing the reader's attention matters a great deal to me, especially since I'm not 100% sure they'll find whatever it is that I find interesting as fascinating as me. These concepts can play out over a shorter time too, and they are always on my mind.

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Definitely!

This newsletter is largely me stealing the tools of fiction to write nonfiction, so I think it absolutely applies across genre.

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Yoink!

Take that, Dickens!

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Ha!

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