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...who gets the other .44375?
Simple. The other authors in the anthology.
...who gets the other .44375?
Simple. The other authors in the anthology.
In the same way, any story that relies for its effect on confusing your readers or boring your readers....
Silly CNN! Don't they know that "non-fiction" is a marketing category, not a promise from the publisher that everything (or even most things) between the covers is true?Publisher's view
St. Martin's Press has now published two accounts of the bin Laden operation that have resulted in statements that they are "fabrications," in one case from the White House and in the other from Special Operations Command.
Does St. Martin's Press plan to do anything about these books as a result? A St Martin's editor e-mailed CNN that "(b)oth authors stand by their sources and their reporting of the events, and we stand by our authors," and a spokesman for St. Martin's told CNN that the Pfarrer book "continues to sell" and will be reissued in paperback in two weeks at the time of the 9/11 anniversary.
Off at CNN:
Silly CNN! Don't they know that "non-fiction" is a marketing category, not a promise from the publisher that everything (or even most things) between the covers is true?
I like this idea (both because I occasionally draw Celtic knotwork, and because I have trouble with subplots). I may have to try it.Or, if you like, us a piece of Celtic knotwork as your outline. (I do this.) That's the answer for the subplot question, too: Every time some particular thread comes to the top in the knotwork, talk about a plot that isn't your main plot (but still has a beginning, a middle, and an end).
Since we were just talking about cliches, here's a list of cliches for Urban Fantasy, presented in an amusing manner.
2) If your backstory is more interesting than your frontstory, you're telling the wrong story.
3) Just because you know a thing doesn't mean it belongs on the page.