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Why Hooking Stories to Holidays is Risky

Why Hooking Stories to Holidays is Risky

It's Memorial Day, so I don't expect you to read this

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Robert Roy Britt
May 27, 2024
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As this edition of the Writer’s Guide arrives in your inbox, it’s Memorial Day. And so I chose Memorial Day as the hook for the theme. Which is really stupid of me.

One of the writer’s whose stuff I edited inadvertently reminded me of this fact of online publishing life.

On Friday morning, the writer who will remain nameless pitched a Memorial Day-themed…

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