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Your most pressing and perplexing questions about writing answered here by Gotham teacher Brandi Reissenweber.

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Fiction

My main character is an all-out jerk. Some have warned me that this might not go over well with readers. What do you think?
What is the difference between genre fiction and literary fiction? How do I know what I'm writing?
How do I know when I have enough short stories to make a book?
Readers complain that my characters explain too much in their dialogue. What am I doing wrong?
Does fiction have to be grammatically correct?
I keep hearing the advice: show, don't tell, but I'm not quite sure what it means. Can you explain?
How important is the title of a story?
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