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Anecdotal leads: a cliche

Feb 28th, 2009 | By

At the 1997 National Writers’ Workshop in Wilmington, Steve Twomey said that an anecdote is great under only two circumstances. First, if it is exactly right, which too often is not the case, and second, if you can segue into the story quickly and without the ever-popular ”John Doe is typical of ….”