"Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write."
--Annie Proulx

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Pride, Prejudice, and Plot Twists

Pride and Prejudice hits all the high points of the romance cycle--and is considered by many to be foundational to the genre.

https://darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/story-skeleton-pride-prejudice

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Omniscience is a perspective all of its own, so it's important not to mix omniscient insights into a close/limited third-person perspective. Many readers will snag on this, and it otherwise makes the voice uneven.

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Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot during WWII before becoming a beloved children's author.

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Margaret Atwood wrote parts of "The Handmaid's Tale" on a rented typewriter in West Berlin.

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Walt Whitman self-published "Leaves of Grass" and revised it multiple times throughout his life.

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William Shakespeare coined over 1,700 words, many of which are still used today.

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Virginia Woolf and her husband founded Hogarth Press, publishing works by T.S. Eliot and Sigmund Freud.

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John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" was banned and even burned due to its portrayal of the Great Depression.

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Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the modern detective story with "The Murders in the Rue Morgue."

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