1. "Theme. It’s something a lot of writers don’t like to think about. It brings up painful memories of high school English class (Write a 1,000 word essay on the theme of The Great Gatsby, and be sure to relate the green light on Daisy’s dock with the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. Due tomorrow.)"
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James Scott Bell, 27 Fiction Writing Blunders - And How Not To Make Them!
2. "Don’t you love that? One of the greatest scientific innovations of all time just came to Townes as he was sitting on a bench in a park. And then he starts scratching it out on paper."
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James Scott Bell, 27 Fiction Writing Blunders - And How Not To Make Them!
3. "It’s quite interesting to note that Townes’s colleagues at Columbia were skeptical of his idea. Niels Bohr, one of the great quantum physicists, and Nobel laureate Isadore Rabi, head of the university's physics department, told Townes his maser idea would never work and urged him to abandon the project."
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James Scott Bell, 27 Fiction Writing Blunders - And How Not To Make Them!