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13. The Plot by Jean Haniff Korelitz
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 02:18 PM
Monday

On the book jacket flap it lists definitions of Plot:

- a sequence of events in a narrative as in a novel

- an immoral or illegal plan

- a designated section of land for a gravesite

A man who wanted to be a writer and had a successful book listed on the New York Tome bestseller list but since then his imagination dried.

Now he teaches in a writing group in a small school and is left in awe when a student details a plot of a book which will create a storm among readers, critics, talk show, Oprah!

The book was never published and when the teacher finds that the promising writer died, he convinces himself that that “spark of the idea” has to be published and he does.

But now he gets a text: you are a thief and we both know it.

This is where I am now.

It took me awhile to get used to the style. Long meandering sentences with many in parentheses. It became easier once descriptions moved to actions.

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