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Vonnegut after Dresden

The superb Letters of Note has

Just one person

Yesterday, Jason Kottke featured this tidbit from Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing short stories:

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Last night, I read this in 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School:

Design a flight of stairs [...]