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SET IN STONE AGE

You’re a writer, a storyteller, a spinner of tales, a painter of dreams; capable of drawing readers out of their everyday and into your world – or, at least, the one you’ve created.

It sounds almost noble, even pretentious. But at heart, it’s what storytelling has always been about, ever since the first humans capable of forming words got their kids around the fire and told them what they’d been doing that day. For some these activities would have been repetitive, mainly for survival; foraging, planting crops, skinning game, avoiding

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