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Thoughts on thishttps://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Like-Tolstoy-Greatest/dp/0812998308


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Thoughts on this

https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Like-Tolstoy-Greatest/dp/0812998308
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>>8248407

It worked. I am now almost finishing a War and Peace like novel settled in the World War II epoch, with families from Russia, England and even Japan as the main protagonists.
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Why would I ever want to write like a hack
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>>8248653

>Tolstoy
>A hack

Either trolling or someone who did not read him.

Also: if you like DFW, Pynchon and Gaddis and thinks Tolstoy is a hack you should kill yourself.
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yeah i read it and then spent all my time rewriting war and peace, but because i'm not aristocracy the process bankrupted me

would not recommend
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