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This week on my podcast, I take a break from my reading of Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town to read my new @locusmag column, "Rules for Writers" - the tale of how I had a very belated epiphany about writing advice while teaching on last year's @WritingExcuses cruise.

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I'd always understood "rules for writers" as things you shouldn't do, but after decades of teaching them and employing them, I realized that "rules" are in fact "things that are hard to do wrong" and thus "things that are likely the problem with a story that doesn't work."

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You can read the column here:

locusmag.com/2020/05/cory-d…

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Here's the podcast episode:

craphound.com/podcast/2020/0…

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And here's the MP3:

archive.org/download/cory_…

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And here's my podcast feed:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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(You can catch up on my reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town" here:)

craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22…

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Congress wants to give money to people whose job is literally to bribe Congress.

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After the Wisconsin GOP murdered voters by forcing them to vote in person, rather than by mail (citing a nonexistent, evidence-free plague of postal voter fraud), mail-in voting was shaping up to be a 2020 Election Culture War flashpoint.

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You may recall the Wannacry ransomware epidemic in 2017, when hospitals, businesses and governments were shutting down because their computers were being encrypted by malware that relied on a leaked NSA cyberweapon called Eternalblue to spread.

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