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Nina is the bomb, head-exploding sentences, the world is better.

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Nina; this link to your book works, the link in the next email did not.

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Nina, pre-ordered your book, can't wait!

Just to say a group of us (we?) writing friends used your blog posts as prompts for a two hour writing session (credited to you of course!)

The sentences and your comments are so helpful and thought-provoking and so ready-made for a group writing session.

The and-and-and structure of Hemingway's sentence particularly was a hit. When I read it, my first thought was what stuff to add. Blazing hot square, gasping green trees, drooping flags. But all the additions are unnecessary because I actually thought of those words and images as I read it. Once you say it's hot, all these things follow.

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