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How to Break the Rules (Beautifully)

Lesson 7 - Manipulating the details of time and space to make readers say, “Oh wow, I didn’t know you could write a story like THAT!”

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That Mariam Chagelishvili giving us the bird again (;

This is lesson 7 of 12 from Jo Gatford’s ‘Smash Your Flash’ for The Forever Workshop! Find all previous lessons and more info about her course here.

Welcome back to our third week of smashing flash — in which we disregard the rules of physics (and linear narrative) and start messing with time and space…

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