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“GO AHEAD. UNDERLINE THE GOOD PARTS Good writing is not the subject here, commercial writing is. Mister Swain's purpose is to teach you how to produce fiction that will sell. That you arrive already an expert fashioner of sentences is a prerequisite. Anything less, he admonishes early on, and success is not possible. "If you need instruction in the traffic laws of the English language," he says, "you've wandered into the wrong field." r/] This is not the kind of text you give a quick...”
“Is this book worth buying and reading if you are just getting started writing?”