>Mistake Number 2

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2. Don’t Consider Yourself Too Smart.

I certainly agree with this one. Bickham suggests posting a sign on your desk: NEVER WRITE DOWN TO YOUR READERS. Which is good advice. I tend to explain, and sometimes explain again, when usually the first time wasn’t even necessary. The reader gets it, the reader enjoys connecting the dots . . . well, you get the idea. Ahem.

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I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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