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There are articles and essays I wish would go on forever. This is one.
In the past I’ve suggested, “Show your reader their worst fear happening to a character, then show how the character survives that fear, and your reader will love you.”
In this essay, the author states:
There are few lessons that stay with us longer and deeper than those which strike mortal fear in us and then propose a way out.
Check out this article about Christmas and Dickens and so much more:
Britain is Haunted by Dickensian Ghosts
Let me know what you think.
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Is anyone terrified of going to prison for hurting someone, but you had no control and have no recollection of it?
About to finish The Ice at the Bottom of the World. So simple but the way he words things is cunning at the same time.
Do you believe that objects retain memory? As in a house retains the events that happen in the house, and carries those events with it, which is interpreted as being haunted. I love this idea because I love old beat up things.