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Bryan Westby
Oct 12, 2023
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I had a pleasant meeting with Willamette Writers, mostly on marketing fiction. A couple concepts that we didn’t expound on is authenticity and writing what you know.

I agree with the concept of authenticity, that writing should be authentic, yet when developing a persona as an author to attract views or readers, that persona doesn’t have to be true. (If …

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