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how to write a love story

The Lengths You’d Go: Writing a Great Love Story

February 5, 2016 By Scott Onak

The Lengths You’d Go: Writing a Great Love Story

In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith is doing what he does most days, throwing little bits of history down a chute to be incinerated, when he bumps into a woman he’s noticed around the office. She stumbles, he helps her up. And when they part he is left with a slip of paper in his Read More…

Filed Under: The Writing Life Tagged With: how to write a love story, love in fiction, love stories, scott onak, StoryStudio, StoryStudio Chicago, the language of love, writing tips

Scott Onak's stories have been published in Ninth Letter, Mid-American Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Willow Springs, and his book reviews appear on The Rumpus. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Idaho and has received writing residencies from the Ragdale Foundation and Vermont Studio Center.

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