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What is a nut graf, anyway?

What is a nut graf, anyway?

They're both simpler and more complicated than they seem

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Oct 17, 2024
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Hello friends, happy Spooky Season!

Today I want to get back to one of the basic, yet most essential, parts of putting together a story: the nut graf. (If you’re not familiar, graf is just short for paragraph.) This question comes up in nearly every writing and story structure workshop I run, so I thought this would be a good place to tackle it.

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