Five Reasons Your Story Stinks (and how to air it out)

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5 Reasons Your Story Stinks (and how to air it out)

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Suzannah Windsor Freeman is the creator and chief editor of Write It Sideways, and author of The Busy Mom's Guide to Writing. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Grist: The Journal for Writers, Sou'wester, Saw Palm: Florida Art & Literature, The Sand Hill Review, and The Best of the Sand Hill Review anthology.

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