Being a good storyteller is like being a rock star (or pop star, or folk singer, chanteuse, blues wailer or troubador), but instead of playing to ampitheatres and stadiums, making music for the masses, we solicit our audience one by one. "Come with me," we whisper, "follow me into the darkness of this quiet room and I'll sing you a song such as you've never heard."
It's a slow seduction. A good writer must share Lothario's capacity for love and repetition, as body by body, the long tale is told.
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