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Underrated books
Legacy of the Clockwork Key by Kristin Bailey When a fire consumes Meg’s home, killing her parents and destroying both her fortune and her future, all she has left is the tarnished pocket watch she rescued from the ashes. But this is no ordinary timepiece. The clock turns out to be a mechanical key—a key… Read more
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The MacGuffin is not your enemy
Have you noticed the word MacGuffin has become a sort of “taboo” concept? So a MacGuffin is essentially an object—or anything that’s not a main character—that drives or triggers the plot. Think of the Holy Grail or Indiana Jones’s Crystal Skull. But it wasn’t called a MacGuffin until Alfred Hitchcock got his hands on it,… Read more
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