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Leslie Farnsworth

@lesliefarnsworth.com

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Aspiring novelist with one project in the revising and one in the planning, blog-keeper (which makes me retro), reader, ponderer, flaneuse, yoga person, goofball, friend. Blog: https://observingleslie.com Author site: https://lesliefarnsworth.com

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 19h

Oooooo. Another new one for me! I will rustle it up. Sounds up my alley 100 percent. 😃

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

That's one I've heard about and haven't read yet. Sounds like I need to. 👍

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

There are! He's written a few others. I have the one on character and the one on dialogue. Both are dense with analysis (similar to STORY); both very worthwhile.

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Ooooo. I am a McKee fan. I have all of his books and return to them regularly. 👍

But what's this about Palahniuk having a craft novel and my never heard of it before now?! Rectifying immediately.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Seems like one of those I should have heard about before, but I hadn't!

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Oooo. 🤩 I'd never heard of that one before. I need that one (and I don't write comics, but I hear you on how the skills would translate!).

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Don't know that one! Will look it up. 👍

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Both of those are new to me! Adding them to my TBR list.

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Both of those are fantastic and on my shelf!

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 1d

Writers among you, is there a craft book you return to at least once a year?

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 3d

I feel like we are now being summoned by the universe to further build (pun intended) on this trope. Play into the absurdity, like.

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 3d

WANT.

I wish I were your neighbor in this moment and could sidle over "who knew?" style for a slice.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

I swear I've seen that seen or one like it. Maybe it's even a trope in some category of film/fiction.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

This sounds fantastic.

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

Why am I not follow your blog on my Feedly already? Fixing that problem straightaway. (YAY FOR BLOGS.)

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

Of course they did, right? Of course they did.

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

She would be a wonderful one, I'd think!

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

😂 I'm glad I'm not alone! I don't know why I agonize over them as I do.

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

🙌 Thank you!

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

Which of her books is your favorite? (If I haven't read it, I'll get that one instead! Clearly the cosmos is telling me to read Aimee Bender again.)

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

Those are really, really good options. (Hard to choose, isn't it?)

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

Ooo! Wild, as I was just thinking of her recently and went to check what I'd missed of her oeuvre... which prompted me to find The Butterfly Lampshade!

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 4d

If you could have any author as a writing mentor or teacher, who would you choose and why?

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Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 5d

😂

Leslie Farnsworth @lesliefarnsworth.com · 5d

I'm down for that.

I'll even settle for a personal e-mail.

Old school blogs also work.

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