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Meanwhile, back at the ranch …

Or rather, at the Super-Sekrit Clubhouse, Marshall Payne has a rather good, considered essay on What is a Story?

Sample:
In my recent interview with John Kessel I asked him:

You’ve taught at Clarion many times. Do you see one reoccurring problem that new writers face that seems the most difficult to overcome?

Learning what makes a story different from a collection of paragraphs,
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And today in the Super-Sekrit Clubhouse

Marshall Payne interviews John Kessel – awesome sauce.

John Kessel has been publishing short fiction since 1978 and since then has gone on to make his mark in the field of SF/F. He won a Nebula Award in 1982 for his novella “Another Orphan,” and more recently (2009) for his novelette “Pride and Prometheus,” a story melding the tales of Jane
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