Story Club with George Saunders

Story Club with George Saunders

Essays on Craft and Writing

An Exercise...

...I've never assigned before.

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George Saunders
Jan 14, 2024
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This week I’d like us to try a new exercise.

As you all know, around here, we do a lot of asking things like, “On what basis do we revise?”

That is, we’ve written a sentence, and there it sits, and now we have to decide how to change it, if at all, and what sentence might want to follow it.

The whole process of writing a story or novel might be seen as doing just that, over and over.

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