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    This Is How You Write a Story
    This Is How You Write a Story
    This Is How You Write a Story
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    This Is How You Write a Story

    By E. Mitchel Brown

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    Steps 1 - 9: Confidence is everything. Small stories. Quiet people. Some political, some feminist, some mothers, some mentally ill, some healthy. Lot of them about people talking and searching. Trying their best to be human. 



    Herland. 
    Headless in Midcity 
    The Glass Womb 
    Leg 
    Joining ISIS 
    danger generation 
    Ghosts Aren’t Real 
    Ana 

    Spore

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE. Mitchel Brown
    Release dateJul 29, 2015
    ISBN9781516340057
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