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Were your schooldays the best of your life - or irrelevant and boring?  If the latter, has the experience stopped you from honing your writing craft and developing your skills, asks Peter.  In today’s Write Report, Donna reports that MIT is trying to analyze storytelling - is the “old” three act structure in mortal danger from new technology?  And British film censors decide to warn audiences about movies that contain scenes showing people in wheelchairs - “disability themes” are too strong for faint-hearted viewers, apparently.  In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she looks at how-to-write books - lots of them out there, but very few good ‘uns…

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Links:The Write Report, How to Write in the Guardian

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