How to Cook a Book

Purpose and the Story

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This last week has had me thinking about how sometimes a story will tell itself, driven onto the page by something other than the search for le mot juste.

Purpose. It’s a word that’s full of forward propulsion and mind-spinning determination to make the picture on the jigsaw box come alive. All you have to do is put the …