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Writing Tricks Indirectly Help Prayer
By
Cheryl Petersen
Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), author with bestselling books, gives 10 tricks for good writing. One of the tricks is to “use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.” In other words, keep the writing free of religious, medical, psychological jargon. I look at the Bible and wonder if its writers applied the same trick. Minus the flowery patter in…
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