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Have you ever wondered why crime dramas are the television genre that will never die? Law & Order  ran for a staggering 20 seasons, and SVU is still pumping out episodes. The CSI: Crime Scene franchise includes five main series, 39 total seasons, 838 episodes across all the shows, and millions of viewers. The format works .  The popularity of these shows has much less to do with original content than it does with a satisfying form. The key to their successful structure? Motiv

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From Rembrandt and Vermeer to Picasso and contemporary photographers, artists have kept the figure of the lone writer alive in the cultural imagination. Every author’s Acknowledgements section is a testament to the weakness of the lone writer myth, yet romantic notions of artistic solitude and silent introspection are hard to shake.  I, too, used to think writing happens in isolation, something between me and my notebook, or, more often, the blinking cursor of a blank Word do