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Theo of Golden Proves You Don’t Need Action to Create Drama
A WORDSLINGER STORY CUT
Can a novel keep you turning pages without explosions, car chases, monsters, or constant high-stakes action?
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi proves that it can.
In this Wordslinger Story Cut, I take a storyteller’s look at one of my new favorite novels and examine why such a quiet, heartfelt story works so well. Theo arrives in the small town of Golden, Georgia, and begins purchasing hand-drawn portraits of local people, returning those portraits to their subjects and asking one simple thing in return: Tell me your story.
That deceptively simple device becomes the engine…
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