Is this you? You've started a novel. The first page makes you want to read more. The first chapter has you settling into a comfortable chair, ready to go along for [...]
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If you tickle us, do we not laugh? This is the first of several questions I want to begin to explore, with the goal of understanding how readers and writers connect. The tickle question comes from Shylock’s speech in Act 3, Scene 1 of The Merchant of Venice.

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